Pisania pusio (original) (raw)
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Species of gastropod
| Pisania pusio | |
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| Five views of a shell of Pisania pusio | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Pisaniidae |
| Genus: | Pisania |
| Species: | P. pusio |
| Binomial name | |
| Pisania pusio(Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Synonyms | |
| Buccinum janeirense Philippi, 1849 Fusus articulatus Lamarck, 1822 Pisania janeirensis (Philippi, 1849) |
Pisania pusio is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pisaniidae.[1]
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]
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 Brazil.
- ^ 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
- 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): fig. 13
- "Pisania (Pisania) pusio pusio". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- 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