Scalptia nassa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Scalptia |
| Species: | S. nassa
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| Binomial name | |
| Scalptia nassa (Gmelin, 1791)
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Description
editThe size of an adult shell varies between 12 mm and 22 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along East Africa and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines.
References
edit- ^ a b Scalptia nassa (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 June 2011.
- MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp.
- Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. (2005) Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)- 2nd edition. Zootaxa, 1102, 3–161. NIZT 682
- Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428pp
- Verhecken A. (2008) Cancellariidae (Neogastropoda: Cancellarioidea) from the Philippines: Description of new species, and a range extension. Visaya 2(3): 7–17. [Published August 2008] page(s): 8
External links
edit- "Scalptia nassa". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
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