Pusionella buccinata
Appearance
Pusionella buccinata | |
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Apertural view of a shell of Pusionella buccinata (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Clavatulidae |
Genus: | Pusionella |
Species: | P. buccinata
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Binomial name | |
Pusionella buccinata (Lamarck, 1822)
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Synonyms[1] | |
Fusus buccinatus Lamarck, 1822 |
Pusionella buccinata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2] Found by Lamarck in 1822.
This species has also been considered a synonym of Pusionella vulpina.[3]
Description
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off West Africa.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Pusionella buccinata (Lamarck, 1822). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 August 2011.
- ^ 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.
- ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 235; 1884
- Lamarck, JBPA de M. "de, 1822." Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertébrés 7 (1815).
- Finet Y. & Snyder M.A. (2012). Illustrations and taxonomic placement of the Recent Fusus and Fasciolaria in the Lamarck collection of the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva (Caenogastropoda, Buccinoidea, Gastropoda). Zootaxa. 3507: 1-37-page(s): figs 14–15