Tritia burchardi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.
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.[ ]
Distribution
This species occurs off Australia (New South Wales,
Queensland,
South Australia,
Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia) and northern
New Zealand
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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
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Cernohorsky W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 14: 1–356.
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Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
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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.
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Walton, K., Couper, J. Nov/2020 Range expansion of the adventive marine snail Tritia burchardi (Dunker, 1849) in New Zealand, Cookia, 32
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