Tricolia

Tricolia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Phasianellidae.[1]

Tricolia
Tricolia gabiniana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Phasianellidae
Genus: Tricolia
Risso, 1826
Type species
Turbo pullus
Synonyms[1]
  • Epheriella Pallary, 1820
  • Eudora Leach, 1852
  • Pellax Finlay, 1926
  • Tricoliella Monterosato, 1884

This genus formerly belonged to the family Tricoliidae.

Description

This genus consists of small species with a head without frontal lobes. The shell is ovate, elongated, and imperforate. The radula has a broad, simple median tooth, overlying the bases of the inner laterals. These are subrhomboidal, produced at their outer angles into wings which overlie the bases of the adjacent tooth outward, and have denticulate cusps. The outer lateral is narrow, not produced on the outer angle. The marginal teeth have long simple cusps, The columella is smooth, arcuate, and not dentate.[2]

Distribution

The species occurs in all tropical and subtropical seas.

Species

Species within the genus Tricolia include:

Shell of Tricolia gabiniana

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also includes the following species with names in current use :[20]

Species brought into synonymy

References
  1. Tricolia Risso, 1826. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 January 2019.
  2. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  3. Tricolia adusta Nangammbi & Herbert, 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  4. Tricolia algoidea (Pallary, 1920). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  5. Tricolia capensis (Dunker, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  6. Tricolia deschampsi Gofas, 1993. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  7. Tricolia entomocheila Gofas, 1993. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  8. Tricolia landinii Bogi & Campani, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  9. Tricolia miniata (Monterosato, 1884). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  10. Tricolia neritina (Dunker, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  11. Tricolia nordsiecki (Talavera, 1978). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  12. Tricolia petiti (Craven, 1882). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  13. Tricolia pullus (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  14. Tricolia punctura Gofas, 1993. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  15. Tricolia retrolineata Nangammbi & Herbert, 2008. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  16. Tricolia saxatilis Nangammbi & Herbert, 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  17. Tricolia speciosa (Mühlfeld, 1824). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  18. Tricolia tenuis (Michaud, 1829). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  19. Tricolia tingitana Gofas, 1982. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  20. OBIS : Tricolia
  • Monterosato T. A. (di) (1884). Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee. Palermo, Virzi, 152 pp.,, p. 50
  • Smith E.A. (1911). On a new species of Phasianella from South Africa. Proc. Malac. Soc, vol. 9, pt. 5, pp. 313–314
  • Gofas S. (1982). The genus Tricolia in the Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Journal of Molluscan Studies 48: 182-213
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
  • 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
  • Williams, S.T., Karube, S. & Ozawa, T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37, 483–506
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