''Tritia louisi'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

, a marine

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

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.

Description

The shell grows to a length of 6 mm. (Original description in French) This type is well distinct from '' Tritia corrugata'' by its surface with salient reticulation, resembling a ''

Tritia reticulata ''Tritia reticulata'', commonly known, common name as the netted dog whelk, is a species of small European sea snail, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusc in the family (biology), family Nassariidae, the dog whelks or nassa mud snails. Des ...

'' in miniature Pallary P., 1912b: ''Liste des Mollusques marins des côtes de la Syrie''; Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes 42: 171–174

Distribution

This species occurs in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea off

Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...

and

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References

* 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 * Nofroni, I.; Savona, S. (1987). Nassarius zambakidisi new species from the Eastern Mediterranean. La Conchiglia. 218-219: 6-7

External links

Aissaoui C., Galindo L.A., Puillandre N. & Bouchet P. (2017). The nassariids from the Gulf of Gabès revisited (Neogastropoda, Nassariidae). Marine Biology Research. 13(4): 370-389
* louisi Gastropods described in 1912 {{Nassariidae-stub