Tritia tingitana

Tritia tingitana
	Apertural view of a shell of Tritia tingitana (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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. tingitana
Binomial name
	Tritia tingitana; (Pallary, 1901)
Synonyms
	Nassa tingitina Pallary, 1901 (basionym); Nassa tingitana var. articulata Pallary 1920; Nassarius (Aciculina) tingitanus (Pallary, 1901); Nassarius tingitanus (Pallary, 1901);

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 8 mm and 11 mm.

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

^ Pallary P., 1901: Diagnoses de quelques coquilles nouvelles provenant du Maroc , Journal de Conchyliologie 49: 226–228, 314–315
^ ^a ^b Marshall, B. (2016). Tritia tingitana (Pallary, 1901). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=876857 on 2016-05-18

Cernohorsky W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 14: 1–356
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

"Nassarius (Aciculina) tingitanus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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