Naytia vaucheri

Naytia vaucheri
Shell of Naytia vaucheri (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Nassariidae
Genus:	Naytia
Species:	N. vaucheri
Binomial name
Naytia vaucheri (Pallary, 1906) [1]
Synonyms [2]
Nassa (Hnnia) vaucheriPallary 1906 (basionym) Nassa vaucheri var. minorPallary 1920 Nassarius (Nassarius) vaucheri(Pallary, 1906) Tritia vaucheri(Pallary, 1906) superseded combination

Naytia vaucheri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nassariidae, the nassa mud snails or dog whelks. ^[2]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 12 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell appears shiny and translucent. The spire is elevated and lurid. There are 8.5 whorls; the apical 1.5 are smooth. The 7 normal whorls are rounded, separated by an impressed suture (the body whorl exceeds half of the total length, 6/11), and are provided with crowded growth lines, only visible under a lens. They are adorned with numerous longitudinal ribs and filiform decurrent cords (12 on the body whorl, 6 on the penultimate whorl). The longitudinal ribs are somewhat flexuous, narrower than the interspaces, and attenuate near the tail on the body whorl. Where the ribs and cords meet, they are regularly dissected into tubercles.

The aperture is oval, angled at the top, and rounded at the bottom. The columella is arched and scarcely plicate. The tail is quite long, adorned with crowded decurrent folds, and slightly incised posteriorly. The siphonal canal is open, oblique, and somewhat broad. The columellar callus is scarcely conspicuous. Externally, it is broadly and thickly margined, while internally, it is nine or ten-dentate.

The color of the whorls is shiny and tawny, the outer lip is whitish. A red band, only manifest in the interspaces of the ribs, encircles the whorl above the suture and extends to the outer lip. The base is depicted in the same manner with decurrent cords. A reddish spot extends above the tail near the outer lip. The operculum is horny, round-oval, terminating in a point below, and scarcely or not dentate on the outer margin. ^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean Sea.

References

1. Pallary P., 1906b: Diagnoses de nouvelles coquilles du Maroc , Oran, privately printed 3 pp.
2. Naytia vaucheri (Pallary, 1906) . 10 June 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
3. Pallary P., 1920: Exploration scientifique du Maroc organisée par la Société de Géographie de Paris et continuée par la Société des Sciences Naturelles du Maroc. Deuxième fascicule. Malacologie (1912) Larose, Rabat et Paris pp. 34, 1 pl., 1 map This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Pallary, P. (1906). Diagnoses de nouvelles coquilles du Maroc. privately printed 3 pp.
• Hoenselaar H. J. & Moolenbeek R. G., 1988: The identity of Nassarius vaucheri (Pallary, 1906) (Gastropoda Prosobranchia), Basteria 52: 45–47
• 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

External links

• Gofas, Serge; Luque, Ángel A.; Templado, José; Salas, Carmen (2017). "A national checklist of marine Mollusca in Spanish waters". Scientia Marina. 81 (2): 241–254. Bibcode:2017ScMar..81..241G. doi:10.3989/scimar.04543.21a.
• "Nassarius (Nassarius) vaucheri". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Yang, Y.; Templado, J.; Puillandre, N.; Zardoya, R. (2024). "Mitogenomic phylogeny of Nassariidae (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 90 (3). doi:10.1093/mollus/eyae020.