''Cyclope'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of sea snails,

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gastropod

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...

s 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 descripti ...

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

Tritia ''Tritia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2016). Tritia. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at ...

'' Risso, 1826 .

Species

;Species brought into synonymy : * ''Cyclope donovania'' Risso, 1826: synonym of '' Tritia pellucida'' Risso, 1826 * ''Cyclope donovani'' Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882: synonym of '' Tritia pellucida'' Risso, 1826 * ''Cyclope donovania'' ic: synonym of ''Cyclope pellucida'' Risso, 1826: synonym of '' Tritia pellucida'' Risso, 1826 * ''Cyclope neritea'' (

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, t ...

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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 ...

'' (

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

): synonym of ''

'' (

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

'' (

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

'' (

)

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