单词 | nassa |
释义 | Nassan. Zoology. Originally: †a genus of carnivorous marine gastropods of the family Nassariidae which includes some dog whelks (obsolete: see note). Subsequently also: a genus of marine gastropods of the family Muricidae. Also (occasionally with lower-case initial): a mollusc of either of these genera; (also, in nassa shell) the shell of such a mollusc.Valid publication of the (current) genus name: P. F. Röding Museum Boltenianum (1798) ii. 132. This preoccupies Nassa Lamarck 1799, which is therefore taxonomically invalid and has been replaced by Nassarius. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Nassariidae > member of genus Nassarius Nassa1834 whelk-tingle1849 dog whelk1856 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [adjective] > of superorder Branchifera > belonging to order Prosobranchiata > of section Siphonostomata > of member of genus Nassa Nassa1971 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 254 Nassa, Lamarck. The side of the columella is covered by a more or less broad and thick plate. 1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) xvii. 391 Mr. Cuming..procured here ninety species of sea-shells, and this does not include several species not yet specifically examined, of Trochus, Turbo, Monodonta, and Nassa. 1853 L. Reeve Conchologia Iconica XVI. at Nassa Pl. 1 The rough Nassa... A very elegantly coronated species, with the spine rising into a sharp turret. 1949 Sci. Monthly Nov. 321/1 Here I found a splendid colony of nassa snails, Nassarius globosus Quoy and Gaimard. 1952 P. A. Morris Field Guide Shells Pacific Coast 191 Nassa sertum (Brug.) Garland Nassa. 1968 R. T. Abbott Seashells N. Amer. 142 Nassa mud snails are among the most active and responsive of the scavengers of the sea. 1971 World Archaeol. 3 136 String bands to which cowrie or nassa shells are attached. 1979 Man 14 537 The Kawelka themselves had also given hundreds of long ropes of cowries, and nassa-shell mats and headbands. 1985 Jrnl. Sci. Hiroshima Univ. B. 31 235 Sexual dimorphism..was predominantly in the genera with simplified tricuspidate rachidiants such as Mancinella and Cronia and in the genera with specialized radulae such as Drupella and Nassa. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1834 |
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