Nassarius globosus
Two views of a shell of Nassarius globosus (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Nassariidae
Genus:	Nassarius
Species:	N. globosus
Binomial name
Nassarius globosus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Synonyms[1]
list of synonyms Arcularia globosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Buccinum clathratum Kiener, 1834 (unnecessary substitute name for Buccinum globosum Quoy & Gaimard, 1833; invalid: junior homonym of Buccinum clathratum Born, 1778) Buccinum globosum Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 Nassa (Arcularia) globosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Nassa globosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Nassarius (Arcularia) globosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Nassarius (Plicarcularia) globosus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Nassarius (Plicarcularia) gibbosuloidea Habe, T. & S. Kosuge, 1966 Nassarius gibbosuloideus (Habe & Kosuge, 1966) Niotha globosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Plicarcularia gibbosuloidea Habe & Kosuge, 1966 Plicarcularia globosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

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

The length of the shell varies between 9 mm and 28 mm.

The small shell is ovate, thick and slightly gibbous. The spire is short and pointed. It is composed of six slightly convex whorls, covered with longitudinal folds and very approximate transverse striae, which form flattened granulations. The body whorl is very large. The ovate aperture is emarginated at the upper part, at its union with the outer lip, which is rather thin, and striated internally. The columella is arcuated, covered by the inner lip, which is enlarged into a whitish, wide, and thick callosity, upon the body of the lbody whorl. The color of this shell is of a reddish brown, with one or two transverse bands upon the middle of the body whorl.^[2]

This species occurs in the Eastern Indian Ocean off Tanzania; off Sri Lanka, Thailand, China, Indonesia and off many islands in the Western Pacific; off Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides and Australia (Queensland).

• Habe, T. & Kosuge, S. 1966. New genera and species of the tropical and subtropical Pacific molluscs. Venus 24(4): 312–341
• Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
• Cernohorsky, W.O. 1991. Mollusca Gastropoda: On a collection of Nassariidae from New Caledonian waters. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Section A. Zoologie. Series A Zoologie, Tome 150 7: 187–204
• Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.

• Quoy, J.C.R. & Gaimard, P. (1833) Mollusques. In Dumont d’Urville, M.J. (Ed.) Voyage de Découverts de l’Astrolabe, Éxécuté par Ordre du Roi Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M. J. Dumont d' Urville. Zoologie, Tome 2. J. Tatsu
• Kiener L.C. (1834-1841). Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes. Vol. 9. Famille des Purpurifères. Deuxième partie. Genres Colombelle, (Columbella), Lamarck, pp. 1-63, pl. 1-16 [pp. 1-63 (1841); pl. 2-4, 6, 8, 11 (1840), 1, 5, 7, 9-10, 12-16 (1841); Buccin (Buccinum), Adanson, pp. 1-112 + table with duplicate page numbers 105-108, pl. 1-31 [pp. 1-64 (1834), 65-104 and 105-108 of table (1835), 105-112 of text (1841); pl. 1-24 (1834), 25-29 (1835), 30-31 (1841); Eburne (Eburna), Lamarck, pp. 1-8, pl. 1-3]
• Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1–356
• "Nassarius (Plicarcularia) globosus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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