Dorsanum
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| Dorsanum | |
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| Five views of a shell of Dorsanum miran (Bruguiere, 1799) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Nassariidae |
| Genus: | Dorsanum Gray, 1847 |
| Type species | |
| Buccinum politum Lamarck, 1822 | |
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Dorsanum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Dorsaninae of the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[1]
