Tritia neritea explained

Tritia neritea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.^[1]

List of synonyms

• Buccinum neriteum Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
• Cyclonassa carinata Coen, 1933
• Cyclonassa diluta Coen, 1937
• Cyclonassa fasciata Coen, 1933
• Cyclonassa kamischiensis [sic] (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 aperture is ovate, reddish, rather small and obliquely emarginated. The outer lip is smooth and slightly margined. The columella is arcuated towards the middle, furnished with a wide, reddish, and almost circular callosity, which extends upon the body of the body whorl. 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.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Black Sea.

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

• • 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

Notes and References

1. 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
2. https://archive.org/details/generalspeciesic00kien 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