WoRMS name details
Nassa optima G. B. Sowerby III, 1903
215701 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215701)
unaccepted
Species
Nassa Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Tritia Risso, 1826
marine
Sowerby, G. B. III. (1903). Descriptions of new species of <i>Nassa, Purpura, Latirus, Voluta, Conus, Stomatella</i>, and <i>Spondylus</i>. <em>Journal of Malacology.</em> 10(3): 73-77, pl. 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16099449 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Nassa optima G. B. Sowerby III, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215701 on 2025-04-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Sowerby, G. B. III. (1903). Descriptions of new species of <i>Nassa, Purpura, Latirus, Voluta, Conus, Stomatella</i>, and <i>Spondylus</i>. <em>Journal of Malacology.</em> 10(3): 73-77, pl. 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16099449 [details]
basis of record Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises. [Contribution to the study of the fauna of Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Fauna of the French colonies.]. <em>Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales.</em> 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises. [Contribution to the study of the fauna of Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Fauna of the French colonies.]. <em>Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales.</em> 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Cernohorsky W.O. (1981). Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Tertiary and Recent species of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 18:137-192. [details]
Other
additional source
Cernohorsky, W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). <em>Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum.</em> 14: i-iv, 1-356. [published 12 July 1984]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59858109 [details]
additional source Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2189: 1–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 [details]
additional source Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2189: 1–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
