Tritia lanceolata
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| Tritia lanceolata | |
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| Shell of Tritia lanceolata (lectotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Nassariidae |
| Genus: | Tritia |
| Species: | T. lanceolata |
| Binomial name | |
| Tritia lanceolata (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tritia lanceolata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[1]
The length of the shell attains 15 mm, its diameter 6.5 mm.
Very elongated variety, finely ribbed, also found on sponges[2]
(Description as Nassa ferussaci arcuata) The shell is bulging and strongly ribbed. On the first whorls, the ribs are arched; on the body whorl, they are flexuous. The ribs and the intervals are furrowed by decurrent striae which create a reticulation less pronounced than that of Tritia reticulata, to which this species bears a resemblance. The aperture is weakly compressed on the side of the outer lip; the mode of coloration is similar to that of Nassa subdiaphana. [3]
