Scalptia nassa

Scalptia nassa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cancellarioidea
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Scalptia
Species:	S. nassa
Binomial name
	Scalptia nassa; (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms
	Cancellaria lamellosa Hinds, 1843; Voluta nassa Gmelin, 1791 (basionym);

Scalptia nassa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.^[1]

Description[]

The size of an adult shell varies between 12 mm and 22 mm.

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along East Africa and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines.

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