''Ilyanassa'' is a
genus
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of
sea snails,
marine gastropod mollusk
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s in the
family
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Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.
[Marshall, B.; Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2016). Ilyanassa Stimpson, 1865. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467489 on 2016-05-18]
Species
Species within the genus ''Ilyanassa'' include:
* ''
Ilyanassa obsoleta'' (Say, 1822):
* ''Il
yanassa trivittata'' (Say, 1822):
synonym of ''
Tritia trivittata''
(Say, 1822)
References
External links
Stimpson W. 1865. On certain genera and families of zoophagous gasteropods. American Journal of Conchology, 1: 55-64, pl. 8-9L.A., Puillandre N., Utge J., Lozouet P. & Bouchet P. (2016). ''The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea).'' Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 337-353Yang, Y.; Abalde, S.; Afonso, C. L.; Tenorio, M. J.; Puillandre, N.; Templado, J.; Zardoya, R. (2021). Mitogenomic phylogeny of mud snails of the mostly Atlantic/Mediterranean genus Tritia (Gastropoda: Nassariidae). Zoologica ScriptaNomenclator Zoologicus info
Nassariidae
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