Dorsanum

Dorsanum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Dorsaninae of the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[1]

Dorsanum
Five views of a shell of Dorsanum miran (Bruguiere, 1799)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Nassariidae
Genus: Dorsanum
Gray, 1847
Type species
Buccinum politum Lamarck, 1822
Synonyms[1]
  • Bullia (Dorsanum) Gray, 1847
  • Dorsanum (Dorsanum) Gray, 1847 · accepted, alternate representation
  • † Duplicata Korobkov, 1955
  • † Duplicatula Kolesnikov, 1939

Species

Subgenera :

  • Dorsanum (Dorsanum) Gray, 1847

Species within the genus Dorsanum include:

  • † Dorsanum estotiensis Lozouet, 1999
  • † Dorsanum gaasensis Lozouet, 1999
  • † Dorsanum javanum K. Martin, 1931
  • † Dorsanum laeve (van Voorthuysen, 1944)
  • † Dorsanum meyni (Beyrich, 1854)
  • Dorsanum miran (Bruguière, 1789)
  • † Dorsanum subpolitum (d'Orbigny, 1852)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Dorsanum (Adinus) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 : synonym of Bullia Gray, 1833
  • Dorsanum (Adinus) javanum K. Martin, 1931 represented as Dorsanum javanum K. Martin, 1931 (alternate representation)
  • Dorsanum belangeri (Kiener, 1834):[2] synonym of Bullia tranquebarica (Röding, 1798)
  • Dorsanum granulosum (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Bullia granulosa (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Dorsanum gruveli Dautzenberg, 1910: synonym of Bullia gruveli (Dautzenberg, 1910)
  • Dorsanum mauritianum (Gray, 1839):[3] synonym of Bullia mauritiana Gray, 1839
  • Dorsanum moniliferum (Kiener, 1834) : synonym of Buccinanops monilifer (Kiener, 1834)
  • Dorsanum terebraeforme Dautzenberg, 1913: synonym of Bullia terebraeformis (Dautzenberg, 1912)

References
  1. Dorsanum Gray, 1847. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 February 2011.
  2. Dorsanum belangeri (Kiener, 1834). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  3. Dorsanum mauritianum (Gray, 1839). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  • Gray J.E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 15: 129-219
  • Galindo, L. A.; Puillandre, N.; Utge, J.; Lozouet, P.; Bouchet, P. (2016). The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 337-353


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