Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Parent taxon: Nassariidae according to Y. I. Kantor et al. 2022
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Landau and Marques da Silva 2010 and Ponder and Warén 1988
Sister taxa: Amyclina, Anentominae, Bathynassa, Bulliinae, Bulliopsis, Colwellia, Cylleninae, Dorsaninae, Ilyanassa, Leptarius, Molopophorus, Pallacera, Photinae, Profundinassa, Pseudostrombus, Psilarius, Sudonassarius, Tomliniinae
Subtaxa: Alectrionidae Caesia Cyclope Demoulia Fusus Gussonea Keepingia Nassarius Nassodonta Naytia Phrontis Reticunassa Sphaeronassa Tritia
Type: Nassarius
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (7 collections), Bermuda (4), Brazil (6), Cayman Islands (3), Chile (6), Costa Rica (7), Cuba (2), Djibouti (6), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (5), Eritrea (3), Fiji (1), France (1), French Polynesia (1), Greece (2), Guam (1), Iceland (6), India (1), Indonesia (2), Ireland (1), Israel (1), Italy (7), Jamaica (1), Japan (11), the Marshall Islands (2), Mayotte (4), Mexico (17), Morocco (18), Namibia (5), the Netherlands (3), Panama (4), Peru (8), the Philippines (1), Poland (5), Portugal (4), Saudi Arabia (2), the Seychelles (3), South Africa (10), Spain (7), Sudan (1), Taiwan (12), Thailand (4), the United Kingdom (7), United States (264: California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina), Vanuatu (7), Venezuela (3), Yemen (2)
• Blancan of United States (2: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), Guam (1), Malaysia (6), South Africa (1), United States (16: California, Florida, Washington)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (2), Belgium (3), Chile (3), Costa Rica (16), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (4), Ecuador (11), Fiji (6), Greece (2), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Iceland (2), India (1), Indonesia (18), Iran (1), Italy (9), Jamaica (4), Japan (16), Mexico (2), Pakistan (3), Panama (15), Papua New Guinea (1), Peru (4), the Philippines (5), Portugal (1), South Africa (5), Spain (6), Trinidad and Tobago (10), the United Kingdom (8), United States (87: California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia), Vanuatu (3), Venezuela (7)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2), Japan (1), South Africa (1), United States (20: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (4), Australia (7), Austria (8), Belgium (7), Brazil (4), Chile (19), Colombia (3), Cyprus (2), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (9), Ecuador (5), Fiji (1), France (2), Germany (44), Greece (2), Hungary (1), India (4), Indonesia (19), Iran (1), Italy (14), Japan (25), Kazakhstan (1), the Marshall Islands (4), Mexico (2), Morocco (1), Myanmar (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (11), Pakistan (4), Palau (1), Panama (56), Papua New Guinea (1), Peru (3), the Philippines (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (5), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (14), Türkiye (3), Ukraine (2), United States (110: California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, Washington), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Oligocene of Argentina (3), Belgium (3), Canada (1: British Columbia), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (25), Germany (2), Hungary (4), Japan (4), Myanmar (1), Somalia (1), United States (41: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Washington)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Colombia (1), France (3), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Indonesia (2), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (3), Peru (3), the United Kingdom (12), United States (52: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Argentina (2), Austria (3), Belgium (1), Denmark (6), Egypt (1), Mexico (1), Puerto Rico (1), United States (25: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Brazil (3), Cameroon (3), France (1), Germany (1), Mozambique (1), Poland (1), Switzerland (5), United States (13: Alabama, Arizona, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
• Triassic of Germany (1), Hungary (1), Italy (5)
Total: 1454 collections including 2526 occurrences