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. ^[1]

Tritia pellucida
shells of Tritia pellucida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Nassariidae
Genus:	Tritia
Species:	T. pellucida
Binomial name
Tritia pellucida ( Risso, 1826)
Synonyms[1]
Cyclonassa pellucida (Risso, 1826) Cyclope donovania Risso, 1826 (dubious synonym) Cyclope donovani Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882 (unjustified emendation) Cyclope donovania [sic] (misspelling) Cyclope pellucida Risso, 1826 Cyclope pellucidus Risso, 1826 (incorrect gender agreement of specific epithet) Nana donovania (Risso, 1826) Nassarius pellucidus (Risso, 1826) Neritula donovani (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882) Panormella lofasi da Costa, 1840

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 (France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey) and off Portugal; also in the Black Sea.