Pisania pusio
| Pisania pusio | |
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| Four views of a shell of Pisania pusio (museum specimens) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Buccinidae |
| Genus: | Pisania |
| Species: | P. pusio |
| Binomial name | |
| Pisania pusio (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Pisania pusio is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]
Description
The size of the shell varies between 19 mm and 51 mm. The color of the shell is chocolate or purplish, with revolving series of red-brown arrowheaded markings.The interior of the aperture is bluish . The columella and the edge of the outer lip has a fawn color. There is usually a white central band on the body. [2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and off the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean off Ascension Island, the Bermudas and Eastern Brasil.
References
- ↑ Pisania pusio (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
- ↑ G.W. Tryon (1880-1881) Manual of Conchology III, Academy of natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
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