''Tritia neritea'' is a

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, a marine

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in the

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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.Marshall, B. (2016). Tritia neritea (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=876816 on 2016-05-18

List of synonyms

* ''Buccinum neriteum'' Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) * ''Cyclonassa carinata'' Coen, 1933 * ''Cyclonassa diluta'' Coen, 1937 * ''Cyclonassa fasciata'' Coen, 1933 * ''Cyclonassa kamischiensis'' ic(misspelling of Cyclope kamiesch (Chenu, 1859)) * ''Cyclonassa kamischiensis'' var. ''atra'' Milaschewitsch, 1916 * ''Cyclonassa kamischiensis'' var. ''exigua'' Milaschewitsch, 1916 * ''Cyclonassa neritea'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * ''Cyclonassa neritea'' var. callosa Pallary, 1912 * ''Cyclonassa neritea'' var. compacta Pallary, 1919 * ''Cyclonassa neritea'' var. depressa Pallary, 1919 * ''Cyclonassa neritea'' var. elongata Pallary, 1919 * ''Cyclonassa neritea'' var. globulosa Pallary, 1919 * ''Cyclonassa neritea'' var. inflata Pallary, 1919 * ''Cyclonassa neritea'' var. kamieschensis Pallary, 1919 (unjustified emendation of Cyclops kamiesch Chenu) * ''Cyclonassa neritea'' var. kamieschensis communis Pallary, 1919 * ''Cyclonassa neritea'' var. kamieschensis discoidea Pallary, 1919 * ''Cyclonassa neritea'' var. kamieschensis gibba Pallary, 1919 * ''Cyclonassa neritea'' var. kamieschensis lactescens Pallary, 1919 * ''Cyclonassa neritea'' var. minuta Pallary, 1919 * ''Cyclonassa neritea'' var. mucronata Pallary, 1919 * ''Cyclonassa neritea'' var. platystoma Pallary, 1919 * ''Cyclonassa vayssierei'' Pallary, 1903 * ''Cyclonassa vernicata'' Coen, 1933 * ''Cyclope neritea'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * ''Cyclope neritoidea'' Risso, 1826 (Unnecessary substitute name for Buccinum neriteum Linnaeus, 1758) * ''Cyclope tarentina'' Parenzan, 1970 * ''Cyclope westerlundi'' Brusina, 1900 * ''Cyclops asterizans'' de Montfort, 1810 * ''Cyclops kamiesch'' Chenu, 1859 * ''Nana neritea'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * ''Nanina unifasciata'' Risso, 1826 * ''Nassa inflata'' Locard & Caziot, 1900 * ''Nassa italica'' Issel, 1870 * ''Nassa minor'' Weinkauff, 1868 * ''Nassa neritea'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted generic combination) * ''Nassa neritea'' var. ''albida'' Requien, 1848 * ''Nassa neritea'' var. ''lutescens'' Requien, 1848 * ''Nassa neritea'' var. ''major'' Requien, 1848 * ''Nassa neritea'' var. ''media'' Requien, 1848 * ''Nassa neritea'' var. ''minima'' Requien, 1848 * ''Nassa neritoides'' Lamarck, 1816 * ''Nassa unifasciata'' Paolucci, 1871 * ''Neritula nana'' Locard, 1887 * ''Neritula nana'' var. ''mucronata'' Locard, 1887 * ''Tritia westerlundi'' (Brusina, 1900)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 5 mm and 25 mm. The hemispherical shell is smooth, depressed, convex above and flattened beneath. The blunt spire is formed of four indistinct whorls, entirely smooth. The

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is ovate, reddish, rather small and obliquely emarginated. The outer

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is smooth and slightly margined. The

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is arcuated towards the middle, furnished with a wide, reddish, and almost circular callosity, which extends upon the body of the

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. The coloring is slightly variable, it is generally of a yellowish or reddish white, with brown lines, and two decurrent, interrupted, or articulated bands, one of which surrounds the suture, and the other only borders the circumference. The epidermis is thick and brown.Kiener (1840). General species and iconography of recent shells : comprising the Massena Museum, the collection of Lamarck, the collection of the Museum of Natural History, and the recent discoveries of travellers; Boston :W.D. Ticknor,1837
(described as ''Buccinum neriteum'') File:Tritia neritea var. atra 01.jpg, ''Tritia neritea'' var. ''atra'' File:Tritia neritea var. kamiesch 01.JPG, ''Tritia neritea'' var. ''kamiesch'' File:Tritia neritea westerlundi 01.JPG, ''Tritia neritea westerlundi''

Distribution

This species occurs in the

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and in the

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References

* Lamarck J.B. (1816). Liste des objets représentés dans les planches de cette livraison. In: Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la Nature. Mollusques et Polypes divers. Agasse, Paris. 16 pp. * Chenu J. C. (1859-1862). Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Paléontologie conchyliologique. Paris * Coen, G. (1933). Saggio di una Sylloge Molluscorum Adriaticorum. Memorie del Regio Comitato Talassografico Italiano. 192: i-vii, 1-186 * Morton J. (1960) ''The habits of Cyclope neritea, a style-bearing stenoglossan gastropod''. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 34(2): 96–105. * Cernohorsky W. O. (1984). ''Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda).'' Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 14: 1–356 * Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), ''European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification''. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180–213 * Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). ''Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas.'' Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Annu. Rev. 43: 419–453

External links

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Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata (10th revised edition), vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae

Brusina, S. (1900). Zur Molluskenfauna des Mittelmeeres. Nachrichtsblatt der deutschen malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 32(5-6): 86-89.

Risso, A. (1826-1827). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Paris, F.G. Levrault. 3(XVI): 1-480, 14 pls.

Montfort P. [Denys de
(1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 (1808). Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 (1810)]
Locard, A. & Caziot, E. (1900-1901). Les coquilles marines des côtes de Corse. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. 46

Locard, A. (1887). Contributions à la faune malacologique française. X. Monographie des espèces de la famille des Buccinidae. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. 33: 17-127, 1 pl.

Pallary, P. (1919). Le Cyclonassa neritea et ses dérivations. Journal de Conchyliologie. 64, 1-11

Pallary, P. (1903). Addition à la faune conchyliologique de la Méditerranée. Ann. Mus. Hist. nat. Marseille, Zool. 8: 4-16, plate 1. Marseille

Milaschewitch, K.O. (1916). Molluscs of Russian seas. Vol. I. Molluscs of the Black and Azov seas. Faune de la Russie et des pays limitrophes, 312 p.

Pallary, P. (1912). Catalogue des mollusques du littoral méditerranéen de l'Egypte. Mémoires de l'Institut d'Egypte. 7(3): 69-207, pls 15-18

Boissin, E.; Neglia, V.; Baksay, S.; Micu, D.; Bat, L.; Topaloglu, B.; Todorova, V.; Panayotova, M.; Kruschel, C.; Milchakova, N.; Voutsinas, E.; Beqiraj, S.; Nasto, I.; Aglieri, G.; Taviani, M.; Zane, L.; Planes, S. (2020). Chaotic genetic structure and past demographic expansion of the invasive gastropod Tritia neritea in its native range, the Mediterranean Sea. Scientific Reports. 10: 21624 (13 pp.)

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
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