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Nassarius fossatus (channeled nassa)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Nassarius fossatus, the channeled basket snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. It is native to the west coast of North America where it is found on mudflats on the foreshore and on sand and mud in shallow water.
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Infraspecies

Nassa fossatus fossatus

Ecosystems

Predators

Enhydra lutris (Sea Otter)[1]
Enophrys bison (Buffalo sculpin)[2]
Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Smokie)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Johnson, Clifford Ray. "Food of the buffalo sculpin, Enophrys bison." Journal of the Fisheries Board of Canada 25.4 (1968): 807-812.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0