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Nassariidae
Nassarius tiarula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Orthogastropoda
Superorder:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Sorbeoconcha
Suborder:	Hypsogastropoda
Infraorder:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Nassariidae Iredale, 1916
Genera
See text.

Nassariidae, common name Nassa mud snails (USA), or dog whelks (UK), are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Sorbeoconcha.

This family of snails is found worldwide.

These snails are found mostly in shallow water, on sandy or muddy substrates, often intertidally, but sometimes in deep water. They can be present in very large numbers in the right habitat.

Nassariidae are primarily active and lively scavengers.

These snails have rounded shells with a high spire, an oval aperture, and a siphonal notch. The broadly triangular operculum has spinose sides and a pointed terminal nucleus.

• Alectrion
• Amyclina
• Arcularia
• Buccinanops
• Bullia
• Cyclonassa
• Cyclope
• Cyllene
• Demoulia
• Dorsanum
• Hinia
• Ilyanassa
• Monoptygma
• Nassarius Finlay,1927
• Neritula
• Niotha
• Pliarcularia
• Reticunassa
• Sphaeronassa
• Telasco
• Zeuxis

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.

• "Nassariidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1