Nassarius comptus

Nassarius comptus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.^[1]

Nassarius comptus
Two shells of Nassarius comptus (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Nassariidae
Genus:	Nassarius
Species:	N. comptus
Binomial name
Nassarius comptus (A. Adams, 1852)
Synonyms[1]
Buccinum elegans Kiener, 1834 Nassa (Alectryon) elegans (Kiener, 1834) Nassa (Alectryon) flammulata Schepman, M.M., 1911 Nassa bucculenta Marrat, 1880 Nassa cinnamomea A. Adams, 1852 Nassa compta A. Adams, 1852 (original combination) Nassa polita Marrat, 1880 Nassa xesta Sturany, 1900 Nassarius (Zeuxis) comptus (A. Adams, 1852) Nassarius compta spelling variation

There is one subspecies : Nassarius comptus polita (Marrat, 1880)

Description

The shell size varies between 15 mm and 24 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off the Mascarene Basin and Mauritius and in the Pacific Ocean off Indonesia and Australia (Queensland)