Tritia lima

Tritia lima
Shell of Tritia lima (specimen at Natural History Museum Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Nassariidae
Subfamily:	Nassariinae
Genus:	Tritia
Species:	T. lima
Binomial name
Tritia lima (Dillwyn, 1817)
Synonyms [1]
Buccinum limaChemnitz, 1795 (unavailable name: published in a work rejected by ICZN direction 1; available from Dillwyn, 1817) Buccinum limaDillwyn, 1817 (original description) Buccinum limatumPhilippi, 1836 Buccinum limatumChemnitz, 1795 (unavailable name: non-binomial, published in a work rejected by ICZN direction 1; available from Philippi, 1836) Buccinum scalariformeKiener, 1834 Conopleura alienaSmriglio, Mariottini & Calascibetta, 1999 Nassa limata(Chemnitz, 1795) (not available: published in a work rejected by ICZN) Nassa limata var. paucicostatadel Prête, 1883 Nassa limata var. robustaMonterosato, 1890 Nassa praelongaMonterosato, 1891 Nassarius lima(Dillwyn, 1817) Nassarius robustus(Monterosato, 1890)

Tritia lima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae. ^{[1] [2]}

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 5 mm and 42 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Greece and in the Tyrrhenian Sea; also in the temperate North Atlantic, extending from the Cantabrian Sea to the Canary Islands.

References

1. Tritia lima (Dillwyn, 1817) . 10 June 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies . 77 (3): 273–308. doi: 10.1093/mollus/eyr017 .

• Cernohorsky W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 14: 1–356
• Smriglio C., Mariottini P. & Calascibetta S. (1999). Description of a new species of Conidae Fleming, 1822 from the Mediterranean Sea: Conopleura aliena n. sp. Bollettino Malacologico 34(1–4): 27-32 page(s): 27–32
• 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

• Gastropods.com: Conopleura aliena
• Nappo A., Rey X., Pellegrinii D., Bonomolo G., & Crocetta F., 2018 - Revisiting the disjunct distribution of Conopleura Hinds, 1844. Zootaxa 4392 (3)