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

Dorsanum miran (Bruguière, 1789)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Buccinum Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dorsanum*	J. E. Gray, 1847	accepted genus name
*Dorsanum (Dorsanum)*	J. E. Gray, 1847	synonym

Species group names

*Buccinum politum*	Lamarck, 1822	synonym
*Bullia miran*	(Bruguière, 1789)	synonym
*Bullia vitrea*	Reeve, 1846	synonym
*Dorsanum (Dorsanum) miran*	(Bruguière, 1789)	synonym; alternate representation

Literature

basis of record	Cernohorsky, W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 14: i-iv, 1-356. [published 12 July 1984].
additional source	Simone, L. R. L. & Pastorino, G. (2014). Comparative Morphology of Dorsanum miran and Bullia granulosa from Morocco (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Nassariidae). African Invertebrates. 55(1): 125-142.
additional source	Allmon W.D., 1990 [12 December]. Review of the Bullia group (Gastropoda: Nassariidae) with comments on its evolution, biogeography, and phylogeny. Bulletins of American Paleontology 99(335): 179 pp., 15 pls.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dorsanum miran (Bruguière, 1789). 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:553029