Reticunassa festiva

Reticunassa festiva is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Reticunassa festiva
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Nassariidae
Genus:	Reticunassa
Species:	R. festiva
Binomial name
Reticunassa festiva (Powys, 1835)
Synonyms[1]
Hinia festiva (Powys, 1835) † Nassa (Hebra) bonneti Cossmann, 1901 † Nassa (Hebra) bonneti var. kachhensis Vredenburg, 1925 Nassa (Hebra) bouneti Cossmann, 1901 Nassa (Hima) festiva (Powys, 1835) Nassa festiva Powys, 1835 (original combination) Nassa lirata Dunker, 1860 (junior synonym) Nassa nodata Hinds, 1844 Nassarius (Hinia) festivus (Powys, 1835) † Nassarius (Hinia) prefestivus MacNeil, 1960 Nassarius (Niotha) festivus (Powys, 1835) Nassarius festivus (Powys, 1835) Tritia (Hinia) festivus (Powys, 1835) Tritia festiva (Powys, 1835)

Description

The length of the shell attains 13 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off China and Japan.

References

1. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Reticunassa festiva (Powys, 1835). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=561200 on 2019-11-19

• Powys W.L. (1835). Characters and observations on new genera and species of mollusca and conchifera collected by Mr. Cuming). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1835: 93-96
• Cernohorsky W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 14: 1-356

External links

• Dunker, W. (1860). Neue japanische Mollusken. Malakozoologische Blätter. 6: 221-240
• 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
• [http://www.gastropods.com/9/Shell_10019.shtml Gastropods.com: Nassarius (Niotha) festivus

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