Tritia alba

Tritia alba

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Nassariidae
Subfamily:	Nassariinae
Genus:	Tritia
Species:	T. alba
Binomial name
*Tritia alba* (Say, 1826)
Synonyms^[1]
Buccinum ambiguum Pulteney, 1799 Nassa alba Say, 1826 Nassa annelifera Reeve, 1853 Nassa candei d'Orbigny in Sagra, 1843 Nassa clathratula A. Adams, 1852 Nassa obtusata A. Adams, 1852 Nassa pura Marrat, 1877 Nassa quinquecostata Marrat, 1880 † Nassarius (Uzita) floridensis Olsson, A.A. & A. Harbison, 1953 Nassarius (Uzita) albus (Say, 1826) Uzita alba (Say, 1826)

Tritia alba, common name the variable dog whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.^[1]

The variety Nassarius albus var. nanus Nowell-Usticke, 1959 is a synonym of Phrontis karinae Nowell-Usticke, 1971

Description

The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 13 mm.

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina, USA to Brazil.

1 2 Marshall, B. (2016). Tritia alba. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=876832 on 2016-05-19

Cernohorsky W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 14: 1-356.
Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
Petuch E.J. & Myers R.F. (2014). Molluscan communities of the Florida Keys and adjacent areas. Their ecology and biodiversity. CRC Press, Boca Raton. 300 pp.

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