Nassarius deshayesianus

Nassarius deshayesianus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nassariidae, the nassa mud snails (USA) or dog whelks (UK).^[1] {Nassariius deshayesinus} are found in warm sampling areas. Moreover, the rate of metabolism species will decline if salinity is increased by up to 41 psu (INIOAS,2017). To add on, salinity is the limiting factor of the distribution of aquatic organism (Issel, 1866), and it influence on the physiological processes is like hemolymph osmolarity and the water content in the tissue can lead to death in most aquatic organism in the phylum of [Nassariidae] (Xiao et al, 2014).

Nassarius deshayesianus
Shell of Nassarius deshayesianus (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Nassariidae
Subfamily:	Nassariinae
Genus:	Nassarius
Species:	N. deshayesianus
Binomial name
Nassarius deshayesianus (Issel, 1866)
Synonyms[1]
Nassa (Arcularia) obockensis (Jousseaume, 1888) Nassa (Phrontis) obockensis (Jousseaume, 1888) Nassa (Phrontis) zailensis G. B. Sowerby III, 1894 Nassa (Phrontis) zailensis var. andamanica Melvill & Sykes, 1899 Nassa deshayesiana Issel, 1866 Nassa obockensis (Jousseaume, 1888) Nassa zailensis G.B. Sowerby III, 1894 Nassa zailensis var. andamanica Melvill & Sykes, 1898 Nassarius (Niotha) deshayesianus (Issel, 1866) Nassarius (Phrontis) deshayesianus (Issel, 1866) Phrontis obockensis Jousseaume, 1888

Description

The shell grows to a length of 15 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz.