Leucozonia nassa

Leucozonia nassa, common name: the chestnut nassa, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.^[1]

Leucozonia nassa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Fasciolariidae
Genus:	Leucozonia
Species:	L. nassa
Binomial name
Leucozonia nassa (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
Murex nassa Gmelin, 1791 Voluta fuscata Gmelin, J.F., 1791 Murex rubicunda Perry, G., 1811 Fasciolaria cingulifera Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1816 Turbinella knorrii Deshayes, G.P. in Deshayes, G.P. & H. Milne-Edwards, 1843 Turbinella angularis Reeve, L.A., 1847 Lagena californica Adams, A., 1853 Turbinella dubia Petit de la Saussaye, S., 1853 Peristernia inculta Gould, A.A., 1860 Leucozonia jacarusoi Petuch, E.J., 1987

Description

The shell size varies between 22 mm and 68 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean it is distributed from North Carolina to Central Brazil.