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Nassa (Amycla)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Taxonomy

Amycla was named as a genus.

It was reranked as Nassa (Amycla) by Cossmann (1903).

It was assigned to Nassa by Cossmann (1903).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Nassa albescens, Nassa ambigua, Nassa auberti, Nassa capensis, Nassa circumcincta, Nassa consensa, Nassa corniculum, Nassa coronata, Nassa costulata, Nassa crenulata, Nassa duplicata, Nassa ecuadorana, Nassa ferussaci, Nassa fossata, Nassa francolina, Nassa francolinus, Nassa gibbosula, Nassa granum, Nassa hoernesi, Nassa inaequicostata, Nassa incrassata, Nassa kraussiana, Nassa lamata, Nassa limata, Nassa limata, Nassa mendicus, Nassa monile, Nassa muricata, Nassa musiva, Nassa mutabilis, Nassa nanggulanensis, Nassa nodifera, Nassa nordenskjoeldi, Nassa pagoda, Nassa pfeifferi, Nassa pullus, Nassa puntablancoensis, Nassa pygmea, Nassa restitutiana, Nassa reticulata, Nassa scropularcus, Nassa serta, Nassa seyhanensis, Nassa siquijorensis, Nassa speciosa, Nassa subventricosa, Nassa tambacana, Nassa vaucheri, Nassa vitiensis, Nassa voluptabilis, Nassa zorritensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1903	Nassa (Amycla) Cossmann

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Buccinoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Buccinidae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Nassa	Röding 1798
subgenus	Amycla

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subg. †Nassa (Amycla)

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

epifaunalf

Diet:

carnivoref

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-09-10 08:10:04

Modified:

2009-09-10 10:10:04

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Middle Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.12900 Ma

Collections (6 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	Morocco	Nassa pfeifferi (127581)
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.0117	Morocco	Nassa corniculum (127626 127636) Nassa corniculum, Nassa pfeifferi (127579 127580) Nassa pfeifferi (127571)