Tritia burchardi

Tritia burchardi
Shell of Tritia burchardi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Nassariidae
Genus:	Tritia
Species:	T. burchardi
Binomial name
Tritia burchardi (Dunker in Philippi, 1849)
Synonyms
Buccinum burchardiDunker, 1849 (original combination) Nassa (Arcularia) labeculaA. Adams, 1852 Nassa (Nassa) labeculaA. Adams, 1852 · Nassa burchardi(Dunker, 1849) Nassa labeculaA. Adams, 1852 (junior synonym) Nassarius (Parcanassa) ellana(Iredale, 1936) junior subjective synonym Nassarius (Plicarcularia) burchardi(Dunker, 1849) Nassarius burchardi(Dunker, 1849) Nassarius ellana(Iredale, 1936) Parcanassa burchardi(Dunker, 1849) Parcanassa ellanaIredale, 1936 junior subjective synonym

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 15 mm.

(Original description in Latin of Nassa labecula) The shell is ovate-conical and oblique. The spire is somewhat acuminate and pale brown, and the body whorl is encircled by an obsolete brown band. The uppermost whorls are flattened and ribbed, while the body whorl is ribbed above and flat below. The callus of the lip is expanded and thin, adorned with a shining brownish spot. The outer lip is thickened posteriorly and toothed internally. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs off Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia) and northern New Zealand

References

1. Tritia burchardi (Dunker, 1849) . 5 June 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Adams, A. (1852–1853). "Catalogue of the species of Nassa, a genus of gasteropodous Mollusca belonging to the family Buccinidae, in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq., with the description of some new species". Eedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1851: 98. Retrieved 5 June 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Cernohorsky, W.O. 1981. Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Tertiary and Recent species of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 18: 137-192
• Cernohorsky W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 14: 1–356.
• Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
• Townsend, M.; Marshall, B. A. & Greenfield, B. L. (2010). First Records of the Australian dog whelk, Nassarius (Plicarcularia) burchardi (Dunker in Philippi, 1849) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 44: 343-348.
• Walton, K., Couper, J. Nov/2020 Range expansion of the adventive marine snail Tritia burchardi (Dunker, 1849) in New Zealand, Cookia, 32

External links

• Philippi, R.A. (1842–1850). Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig gekannter Conchylien unter Mithülfe mehrerer deutscher Conchyliologen. Cassel: T. Fischer. p. 69.
• Iredale, T. (1936). "Australian molluscan notes, no. 2". No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum. 19 (5).
• 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. Bibcode:2016MolPE..99..337G. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.019. PMID   27012605.