Tritia pellucida

Tritia pellucida
shells of Tritia pellucida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Nassariidae
Genus: Tritia
Species: T. pellucida
Binomial name
Tritia pellucida
( Risso, 1826)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cyclope donovania Risso, 1826 (dubious synonym)
  • Cyclope donovani Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882 (unjustified emendation)
  • Cyclope donovania [sic] (misspelling)
  • Cyclope pellucida Risso, 1826
  • Nana donovania (Risso, 1826)
  • Neritula donovani (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882)
  • Panormella lofasi da Costa, 1840

Tritia pellucida, common name : the cyclops nassa, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[1]

Even as Cyclope has been ruled to have a feminine gender by Opinion 793 of the ICZN,[2] Risso published the name as masculine Cyclope pellucidus and the synonym Cyclope donovania as feminine.

Description

The shell size varies between 5 mm and 12 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea (Greece)

References

  1. 1 2 Marshall, B. (2016). Tritia pellucida (Risso, 1826). In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=876815 on 2016-05-20
  2. 1966, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 23(5): 227
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