Tritia lima

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| taxon =Tritia lima

| image = Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.205546 - Nassarius lima (Dillwyn, 1817) - Nassariidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg

| image_caption = Shell of Tritia lima (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)

| authority = (Dillwyn, 1817)

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Buccinum lima Chemnitz, 1795 (unavailable name: published in a work rejected by ICZN direction 1; available from Dillwyn, 1817)
Buccinum lima Dillwyn, 1817 (original description)
Buccinum limatum Philippi, 1836
Buccinum limatum Chemnitz, 1795 (unavailable name: non-binomial, published in a work rejected by ICZN direction 1; available from Philippi, 1836)
Buccinum scalariforme Kiener, 1834
Conopleura aliena Smriglio, Mariottini & Calascibetta, 1999
Nassa limata (Chemnitz, 1795) (not available: published in a work rejected by ICZN)
Nassa limata var. paucicostata del Prête, 1883
Nassa limata var. robusta Monterosato, 1890
Nassa praelonga Monterosato, 1891
Nassarius lima (Dillwyn, 1817)
Nassarius robustus (Monterosato, 1890)

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Tritia lima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae.MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Tritia lima (Dillwyn, 1817). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1115499 on 2019-10-20{{cite journal |author1=P. Bouchet |author2=Yu. I. Kantor |author3=A. Sysoev |author4=N. Puillandre |year=2011 |title=A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda) |journal=Journal of Molluscan Studies |volume=77 |issue=3 |pages=273–308 |doi=10.1093/mollus/eyr017|doi-access=free }}

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 5 mm and 35 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Greece and in the temperate North Atlantic.

References

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

[http://www.gastropods.com/4/Shell_15104.shtml Gastropods.com: Conopleura aliena]
[https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4392.3.7 Nappo A., Rey X., Pellegrinii D., Bonomolo G., & Crocetta F., 2018 - Revisiting the disjunct distribution of Conopleura Hinds, 1844. Zootaxa 4392 (3)]

lima

Category:Gastropods described in 1817