Kindly help me to identify this specimen collected from tropical monsoonal estuary, (2m depth, estuary 5-25 ppt salinity), 2 meter depth, 1.5 to 2 cm length.
Mr. Jayachandran images or not clear,in my way this one is belongs to Gastropoda Littorinidae Family sp,
However , it has siphon canal it is not present in Littorinidae?
Yes, It´s a Nassaridae. I think that genus Bullia but I don't know what species of Bullia you have There.
It is a species of family Nassariidae, probably Nassarius dorsatus. This species has been occasionally mentioned as Nassa dorsata from Indian estuaries (e.g. http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/arthropods/articles/2013-2(2)/biodiversity-of-cultivable-molluscan-resources.pdf or http://www.pmbc.go.th/web/webpmbc/ResearchBulletin/full/Bulletin_57_full4.pdf).
Nassarius sufflatus is another species from the Indian Ocean that looks like your specimen.
dear Frank Walther, but there are no prominant Lirae on outer lip and it is thin in our sample like N. sufflatus attached below an
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312377186_Authentication_of_Nassodonta_insignis_H_Adams_1867_Gastropoda_Nassariidae_from_the_Kodungallur_-_Azhikode_backwater_southwest_coast_of_India_using_mitochondrial_COI_marker
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