Nassarius trivittatus

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Nassariidae

Lowermost portion of the body whorls including the siphonal canal, set off from the rest of it by a conspicuous groove that interrupts the axial ribs.

Habitat

Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 68 meters (224 feet).[1]

Biome: Coastal.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Ilyanassa trivittata (Say • Nassa trivittatus Say

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Say Th. Description of the Myriapoda of the United States Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . (1) 3: 1, 1822.

Last scrutiny: 30-Dec-2004

Similar Species

Members of the genus Nassarius

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 22 species and subspecies in this genus:

N. acutus (Sharp Nassa) · N. albus (Antilles Nassa) · N. antillarum (Antilles Nassa) · N. consensa (Soft-Coral Goby) · N. consensus (Striate Nassa) · N. fossatus (Channeled Nassa) · N. fraterculus (Japanese Nassa) · N. hotessieri (Miniature Nassa) · N. incrassatus (Thickened Nassa) · N. insculptus (Smooth Western Nassa) · N. mendicus (Lean Nassa) · N. mendicus mendicus (Lean Western Nassa) · N. obsoletus (Eastern Mudsnail) · N. perpinguis (Fat Western Nassa) · N. polygonatus (Black-Spot Nassa) · N. pygmaeus (Pygmy Nassa) · N. reticulatus (Reticulated Nassa) · N. rhinetes (California Nassa) · N. scissuratus (Carved Nassa) · N. tiarula (Western Mud Nassa) · N. trivittatus (Threeline Mudsnail) · N. vibex (Bruised Nassa)

More Info

• Search for Pictures: images.google.com
• Search for Scholarly Articles: Google Scholar
• Search using Scientific Name and Vernacular Names: All the Web | AltaVista Canada | AltaVista | Excite | Google | HotBot | Lycos
• Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books

Further Reading

• American seashells. With illus. by Frederick M. Bayer. New York, Van Nostrand[1954] url p. 239.
• An up-to-date systematic list of 3200 seashells from Greenland to Texas: translation, explanation, and gender of their names. [Brooklyn?]1954. url .
• Breviora. 1971 Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, [1952- url p. 2, plate 1, page 24.
• Bulletins of American paleontology. Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url p. 17, p. 67.
• Buzzards Bay Disposal Site Baseline Study, March 1990 / submitted to: Regulatory Branch, New England Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; submitted by: Science Applications International Corporation. Waltham, MA: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England Division, 1991. url , , , , , , , .
• East coast marine shells: descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida, with more than one thousand drawings and photographs / by Maxwell Smith. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edwards Brothers, 1951, [c1937] url p. 309.
• Ecology of Buzzards Bay: an estuarine profile / by Brian L. Howes and Dale D. Goehringer and Center for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts; Rebecca J. Howard, project officer. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Biological Service, 1996. url p. 43.
• Environmental benchmark studies in Casco Bay, Portland Harbor, Maine, April 1980 / Peter F. Larsen, Anne C. Johnson, and Lee F. Doggett. Woods Hole, Mass.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Center; 1983. url p. 123, p. 125, p. 129, p. 130, p. 131, p. 133, p. 135, p. 137, p. 144, p. 157, p. 162, p. 163, p. 164, p. 165, p. 172, p. 173, p. 54, p. 69, p. 99.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url , p. 18, p. 20, p. 703.
• Fishery bulletin. United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. url p. 278.
• Keys to marine invertebrates of the Woods Hole region: a manual for the identification of the more common marine invertebrates / compiled by Ralph I. Smith with the assistance of many other contributors. Woods Hole, Mass.: Systematics-Ecology Program, Marine Biological Laboratory, 1964. url p. 11, p. 138, p. 141, p. 142.
• Marine and estuarine environments, organisms, and geology of the Cape Cod region; an indexed bibliography, 1665-1965 [by] Anne E. Yentsch [and others. Woods Hole, Mass., Systematics Ecology Program, Marine Biological Laboratory[c1966] url p. 130, p. 132, p. 23, p. 40, p. 68.
• Monitoring surveys at the New London disposal site, August 1985-July 1986 / submitted to: Regulatory Branch, New England Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; submitted by: J.H. Parker, E.C. Revelas [of] Science Applications International Corporation. Waltham, MA: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England Division, 1989. url , , .
• NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; url p. 6, p. 7, p. 8.
• New Haven Harbor ecological studies summary report, 1970-1977 / prepared for the United Illuminating Company, New Haven, Connecticut by Normandeau Associates, inc., Bedford, New Hampshire; edited by Andrew J. McCusker, Weldon S. Bosworth. Bedford, N.H.: Normandeau, 1979. url p. 10, p. 12, p. 14, p. 20, p. 26.
• Ocean dumping in the New York Bight: an assessment of environmental studies / by George Pararas-Carayannis. Fort Belvoir, Va.: Available from NTIS, 1973. url p. 89.
• Oxygen depletion and associated benthic mortalities in New York Bight, 1976 / editors, R. Lawrence Swanson, Carl J. Sindermann. Rockville, Md.: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; 1979. url p. 291, p. 292.
• Postilla. 2001 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 10, p. 15, p. 7.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 626, p. 629, p. 632.
• Seasonal monitoring cruise at the Western Long Island Sound Disposal Site, August 1986 / submitted to: Regulatory Branch, New England Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; submitted by: Science Applications International Corporation. Waltham, MA: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England Division, 1988. url .
• Special scientific report. Seattle, National Marine Fisheries Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1971. url p. 17, p. 9.
• The Argo Merchant oil spill: a preliminary scientific report / edited by Peter L. Grose and James S. Mattson. Boulder, Colo.: for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977. url p. 25.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url , , p. 162, p. 264, p. 269, p. 305, p. 330, p. 376, p. 389, p. 397, p. 433, p. 467, p. 520, p. 580, p. 581, p. 585, p. 589, p. 607, p. 77.
• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url , , p. 117, p. 125, p. 126, p. 37, p. 38, p. 46, p. 49, p. 50, p. 67, p. 78, p. 89, p. 94.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 07, 2007:

• Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Atlantic Reference Centre
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Bay of Fundy Species List
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, EPA'S EMAP Database
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, NBI
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, The SERTC Invertebrate Database: Invertebrates of the southeastern United States
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database
• Yale University Peabody Museum, Yale Peabody Museum - Invertebrate Paleontology DiGIR provider service

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2685783
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-74109
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13725670
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 74109
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 508541

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 627.700 based on 557 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

©2004-2012 David Stang. All rights reserved.