Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Synonyms: Buccinum (Nassa) Röding 1798, Cyclonassa Swainson 1840, Nassa Lamarck 1799
Parent taxon: Nassariinae according to Y. I. Kantor et al. 2022
See also Claremont et al. 2013, Dominici et al. 2020, Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska 1984, Ladd 1977, Landau et al. 2009, MacNeil 1960, Malumián et al. 1978, Martin 1904, Nagao 1928, Palmer and Brann 1966, Sepkoski 2002, Wilson 1994, Woodring 1938 and Woods 1922
Sister taxa: Alectrionidae, Caesia, Cyclope, Demoulia, Fusus, Gussonea, Keepingia, Nassarius, Nassodonta, Naytia, Phrontis, Reticunassa, Sphaeronassa
Subtaxa: Nassa (Amycla) Nassa (Eione) Nassa (Hebra) Nassa (Telasco) Nassa calvertensis Nassa cara Nassa columbelloides Nassa crassigranosa Nassa fueguina Nassa greensboroensis Nassa gubernatoria Nassa marylandica Nassa microstoma Nassa miser Nassa monensis Nassa nordenskjoldi Nassa pacis Nassa packardi Nassa palta Nassa peraltoides Nassa plicatella Nassa reussi Nassa socialis Nassa sublirella Nassa tinosa Tritia agatensis Tritia coloratus Tritia mutabilis
Type: Buccinum mutabile
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (2), Djibouti (6), Eritrea (3), Greece (2), Indonesia (1), Israel (1), Japan (2), Morocco (15), Namibia (4), Poland (5), Portugal (1), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (8), Sudan (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Ecuador (1), Greece (2), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), India (1), Papua New Guinea (1), the Philippines (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: California, Florida), Vanuatu (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (17: California)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Cyprus (2), Greece (2), Hungary (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Italy (3), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (4), Papua New Guinea (1), Peru (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (4: Maryland)
• Oligocene of Argentina (3), Denmark (1)
• Eocene of Indonesia (1), United States (1: Washington)
• Paleocene of Puerto Rico (1)
Total: 121 collections including 162 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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