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Nassarius micans

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ6967489 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nassarius micans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 18 mm and 24 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea and off the Philippines and Indonesia.

References

Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp.

Cernohorsky W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 14: 1–356.

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“Nassarius micans” enters the record as species of mollusc. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nassarius, micans and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nassarius, micans and species.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6967489. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1986 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nassarius micans” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.