Nassaria
Nassaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Tomliniinae of the family Nassariidae.
Taxonomy
This genus was treated within family Buccinidae. It was moved to family Nassariidae in 2016.Type species
The issue regarding type species of the genus Nassaria Link, 1807 is confusing. Cernohorsky and Fraussen assume “Nassaria lyrata Link, 1807”. Considering other instances in Link, this latter name is expected to represent a new combination for Buccinum lyratum Gmelin, 1791, not as a separately available new taxon. Link’s original reference reads “N. lyrata. L. G. p. 3494. M.C. 4, t. 122, f. 1122, 1123“ .Nevertheless, as pointed out by Mörch, MacNeil, and others, the two cited references are inconsistent. Gmelin’s Buccinum lyratum is introduced on pp. 3494–3495, and currently considered as a synonym of Boreotrophon clathratus whereas the reference to Martini & Chemnitz, vol. 4, t. 122, f. 1122, 1123 matches Buccinum album Gmelin, 1791, described on page 3495 with reference to the same figures. The vernacular name “Fischreuseschnecken” used by Link matches “Fischreuse” used by Martini & Chemnitz for f. 1122, 1123, indicating that the latter was the species really intended. This is the rationale for the current interpretation, where Nassaria lyrata Link, 1807 is considered an available name based on Martini & Chemnitz f. 1122, 1123 and objective junior synonym of Buccinum album Gmelin, 1791.
Description
The shell is ovately fusiform. The spire is acuminated. The whorls are longitudinally ribbed and cancellated. The aperture ends anteriorly in a long recurved siphonal canal. The inner lip is thin, circumscribed and transversely corrugately plicated. The outer lip is grooved internally.Species
Species within the genus Nassaria include:Nassaria acuminata Nassaria acutispirata Nassaria amboynensis Watson, 1881Nassaria bitubercularis Nassaria bombax Cernohorsky, 1981Nassaria callomoni Poppe, Tagaro & Fraussen, 2008Nassaria corollaria Fraussen, 2006Nassaria coromandelica E.A.Smith, 1894- † Nassaria dijki Nassaria exquisita Fraussen & Poppe, 2007Nassaria fibula Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, 2008Nassaria gracilis G.B. Sowerby III, 1902Nassaria gyroscopoides Fraussen & Poppe, 2007
- † Nassaria incerta Nassaria incisa Fraussen, 2006Nassaria intacta Fraussen, 2006Nassaria laevior E.A. Smith, 1899Nassaria magnifica Lischke, 1871Nassaria miriamae Nassaria moosai Fraussen, 2006
- Nassaria nassoides Nassaria nebulonis Fraussen, Dharma & Stahlschmidt, 2009Nassaria okinavia Nassaria perlata Poppe & Fraussen, 2004Nassaria problematica Nassaria pusilla Nassaria recurva G.B. Sowerby II, 1859Nassaria rickardi Nassaria sinensis G.B. Sowerby II, 1859Nassaria solida Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961Nassaria spinigera Nassaria tarta Fraussen, 2006Nassaria teres Martens, 1902Nassaria termesoides Fraussen, 2006Nassaria thalassomeli Fraussen & Poppe, 2007Nassaria thesaura Fraussen & Poppe, 2007Nassaria turbinata Nassaria varicosa S.-Q. Zhang & S.-P. Zhang, 2014Nassaria vermeiji Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, 2015Nassaria visayensis Fraussen & Poppe, 2007Nassaria wallacei Fraussen, 2006
- † Nassaria wanneri