Zeuxis (gastropod)

Zeuxis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Nassariidae
Genus: Zeuxis
Type species
Buccinum taenia Gmelin, 1791

Zeuxis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[1]

Zeuxis has been made a synonym of Nassarius Duméril, 1805.

Species

Species within the genus Zeuxis include:

References

  1. Zeuxis .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on March 5, 2011.


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