Pusionella compacta

Pusionella compacta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Pusionella
Species: P. compacta
Binomial name
Pusionella compacta
Strebel, 1914

Pusionella compacta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1] [2]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 26 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean along West Africa and Angola.

References

  1. Pusionella compacta Strebel, 1914.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 August 2011.
  2. P. Bouchet, Yu. I. Kantor, A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.

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