| Cyclope pellucidus | |
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| shells of Cyclope pellucidus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Nassariidae |
| Genus: | Cyclope |
| Species: | C. pellucidus |
| Binomial name | |
| Cyclope pellucidus Risso, 1826 |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cyclope pellucidus, common name : the cyclops nassa, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[1]
Even as Cyclope has been ruled to have a feminine gender by Opinion 793 of the ICZN [2], Risso published the name as masculine Cyclope pellucidus and the synonym Cyclope donovania as feminine.
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The shell size varies between 5 mm and 12 mm
This species is distributed in the Mediterranean Sea.