''Tritia corrugata'', common name the one-banded nassa, is a

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, a marine

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in the

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Nassariidae The Nassariidae, Nassa mud snails (US), or dog whelks (UK) are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized snails, mostly marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. These snails have rounded shells with a high spire, an oval ap ...

, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.

List of synonyms

* ''Buccinum costulatum'' Renieri, 1804 (unavailable name: published in a work placed on Official Index by

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Opinion 316) * ''Buccinum cuvierii'' Payraudeau, 1826 (original combination) * ''Buccinum elegans'' O. G. Costa, 1830 (invalid: junior homonym of Buccinum elegans J. de C. Sowerby, 1824, and Buccinum elegans Risso, 1826) * ''Buccinum ferussaci'' Payraudeau, 1826 * ''Buccinum flexuosum'' Costa O.G., 1830 * ''Buccinum subdiaphanum'' Bivona Ant., 1832 * ''Buccinum variabile'' Philippi, 1836 * ''Buccinum variabile'' var. ''media'' Philippi, 1836 * ''Eione sulcata'' Risso, 1826 (dubious synonym) * ''Hima candida'' Coen, 1937 * ''Hinia costulata'' (Brocchi, 1814) * ''Hinia fulva'' Ghisotti, 1986 * ''Hinia juliae'' Ghisotti, 1986 * ''Hinia lopadusae'' Ghisotti, 1986 * ''Hinia phasianella'' Ghisotti, 1986 * ''Hinia pulchella'' Ghisotti, 1986 * ''Hinia signata'' Ghisotti, 1986 * ''Hinia vitrea'' Coen, 1914 * ''Nassa bucquoyi'' Locard, 1887 (dubious synonym) * ''Nassa corrupta'' Locard & Caziot, 1900 * ''Nassa costulata'' (Renieri, 1804) * ''Nassa costulata'' var. ''atra'' Brusina, 1869 * ''Nassa costulata'' var. ''castanea'' Brusina, 1869 * ''Nassa costulata'' var. ''costata'' Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882 * ''Nassa costulata'' var. ''flavida'' Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882 * ''Nassa costulata'' var. ''lanceolata'' Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882 * ''Nassa costulata'' var. ''pulcherrima'' Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882 * ''Nassa costulata'' var. ''tenuicosta'' Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882 * ''Nassa costulata'' var. ''turgida'' Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882 * ''Nassa costulata'' var. ''zonata'' Brusina, 1869 * ''Nassarius (Telasco) cuvierii'' (Payraudeau, B.-C., 1826) * ''Nassa cuvieri'' ic(misspelling of ''Nassa cuvierii'' (Payraudeau, 1826)) * ''Nassa cuvieri'' var. ''varicosa'' Locard, 1887 * ''Nassa cuvierii'' (Payraudeau, 1826) * ''Nassa dautzembergi'' Mari, 1928 * ''Nassa encaustica'' Brusina, 1869 * ''Nassa ferussaci'' (Payraudeau, 1826) * ''Nassa ferussaci arcuata'' Pallary, 1904 * ''Nassa ferussaci exigua'' Pallary, 1904 * ''Nassa ferussaci pallaryi'' Koch in Pallary, 1906 * ''Nassa ferussaci'' var. ''alexandrina'' Pallary, 1912 (dubious synonym) * ''Nassa ferussaci'' var. ''claudoni'' Pallary, 1906 * ''Nassa guernei'' Locard, 1886 * ''Nassa mabillei'' Locard, 1887 * ''Nassa madeirensis'' Reeve, 1854 * ''Nassa semicostata'' Locard, 1887 * ''Nassa subcostulata'' Locard, 1886 (dubious synonym) * ''Nassa turgida'' (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882 ) * ''Nassa turgida'' var. ''compacta'' Pallary, 1912 * ''Nassarius cuvierii'' (Payraudeau, 1826) * ''Planaxis beudantiana'' Risso, 1826 * ''Planaxis fitcheliana'' Risso, 1826 * ''Planaxis lineolata'' Risso, 1826 * ''Planaxis loques'' Risso, 1826 * ''Planaxis molliana'' Risso, 1826 * ''Planaxis riparia'' Risso, 1826 * ''Planaxis tenuis'' Risso, 1826 * ''Tritia cuvierii'' (Payraudeau, 1826) junior subjective synonym

Description

The length of the shell varies from 9 mm to 20 mm. The small shell is ovate, conical, rather shining, and pointed. The

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is formed of six or seven indistinct

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s, often ornamented with longitudinal folds, which are rarely continued to the base of the

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, and which are crossed by very fine and slightly marked transverse striae. The

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is white. The outer

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is thick, white externally, and denticulated within. The

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is smooth and shows two guttules at the base. The coloring of the shell is very various. The ground color is generally of a yellowish white. The transverse striae are accompanied with very fine lines, white and of a red bay color. Reddish, or bluish brown spots, intersected with white, form zones upon the upper part of each whorl. At the base, and the middle of the lowest, the brown lines are more marked.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 cuvieri'')

Distribution

This species occurs in the

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and in the Atlantic Ocean off the

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References

External links

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Payraudeau, B. C. (1826). Catalogue descriptif et méthodique des annelides et des mollusques de l'Ile de Corse; avec huit planches représentant quatre-vingt-huit espèces, dont soixante-huit nouvelles. 218 pp. Paris

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.

Cernohorsky, W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 14: i-iv, 1-356

Moreno D. & Templado J. (1995). El complejo de especies "Nassarius cuvierii - N. unifasciatus" (Gastropoda, Nassariidae) en el SE de España. Iberus. 12(2): 33-47

Adam, W. & Knudsen, J. (1984). Révision des Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda Prosobranchia) de l'Afrique occidentale. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 55 (9): 1-95, 5 pl

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
{{Taxonbar, from=Q6967440 corrugata Gastropods described in 1814