''Cyclope'' is a

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Nassariidae The Nassariidae, Nassa mud snails (USA), or dog whelks (UK), are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. "Dog whelk" also refers to ''Nucella lapillus''. Shell description T ...

, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. This genus has become a synonym of '' Tritia'' Risso, 1826 .

Species

;Species brought into synonymy : * ''Cyclope donovania'' Risso, 1826: synonym of ''

Tritia pellucida ''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.Marshall, B. (2016). Tritia pellucida (Risso, 1826). In: MolluscaBase (201 ...

'' Risso, 1826 * ''Cyclope donovani'' Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882: synonym of ''

'' Risso, 1826 * ''Cyclope donovania'' ic: synonym of ''Cyclope pellucida'' Risso, 1826: synonym of ''

'' Risso, 1826 * ''Cyclope neritea'' ( Linnaeus,

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): synonym of ''

Tritia neritea ''Tritia neritea'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.Marshall, B. (2016). Tritia neritea (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at ht ...

'' ( Linnaeus,

) * ''Cyclope neritoidea'' Risso, 1826 (Unnecessary substitute name for ''Buccinum neriteum'' Linnaeus,

): synonym of ''

'' ( Linnaeus,

) * ''Cyclope pellucida'' Risso, 1826: synonym of ''

'' (Risso, 1826) * ''Cyclope tarentina'' Parenzan, 1970 : synonym of ''

'' ( Linnaeus,

) * ''Cyclope westerlundi'' Brusina, 1900: synonym of ''

'' ( Linnaeus,

)

Nomenclature

It was placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by ICZN opinion 793.(1966, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 23(5): 227). Its grammatical gender was ruled as feminine by this opinion, the name was inconsistently treated as feminine in the combination ''C. neritoidea'' and masculine in the combination ''C. pellucidus'' by Risso (1826).

References

* Montfort P. enys de(1810) ''Conchyliologie systématique, et classification méthodique des coquilles'' .. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16. Paris: Schoelle * Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). ''Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification''. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213 Gastropod genera Nassariidae {{Nassariidae-stub