Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Buccinoidea > Family Nassariidae > Subfamily Dorsaninae

Dorsanum J. E. Gray, 1847

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dorsanum (Dorsanum)*	J. E. Gray, 1847	synonym; alternate representation

Children

Dorsanum miran (Bruguière, 1789)

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847].
basis of record	Ilyina L.B. (1993). Определитель морских средне-миоценовых гастропод Юго-Западной Евразии [= Handbook for identification of the marine Middle Miocene gastropods of southwestern Eurasia]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta RAS. 255: 1-151.
additional source	Galindo, L. A.; Puillandre, N.; Utge, J.; Lozouet, P.; Bouchet, P. (2016). The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 337-353.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dorsanum J. E. Gray, 1847. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205508