Persicula
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Persicula is a taxonomic genus of minute to small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. It includes several species which are micromollusks.
This genus is sometimes placed in the family Cystiscidae, and is sometimes instead left in the family Marginellidae the margin snails. It is within the infraorder Neogastropoda.
(Note: Gastropod taxonomy has been in flux for more than half a century, and this is especially true currently, because of new research in molecular phylogeny. Because of all the on-going changes, different reliable sources can yield very different classifications.)
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[edit] Habitat
Species in this genus live from the intertidal zone to 370 m in depth.
[edit] Shell description
In this genus the shell is minute to small. It can be uniformly colored or white, and the color can be patterned. The shell is moderately thick to thick. The spire is usually immersed. The lip of the aperture is thickened, and weakly to strongly lirate.
An external varix can be present or absent. There is a distinct siphonal notch present and a posterior notch is also present. The collumela is multiplicate, with 4 to 13 plications plus parietal lirae.
[edit] Description of soft parts
The animal has long tentacles, and the siphon is also usually long. The mantle appears not to extend completely over the external shell surface.
[edit] Type species of the genus
P. variabilis Schumacher, 1817 = Voluta persicula Linné, 1758; M
[edit] Species
- Persicula accola Roth & Coan, 1968
- Persicula adamsiana Pilsbry & Love, 1932
- Persicula albomaculata May, 1911
- Persicula bandera Coan & Roth, 1965
- Persicula blanda Hinds, 1844
- Persicula brinkae Bozzetti, 1993
- Persicula bulbulina Locard
- Persicula calculus Redfield, 1870
- Persicula canaryensis Clover, 1972
- Persicula cassidiforme Gaskoin, 1853
- Persicula catenata Montagu, 1803
- Persicula chrysomelina Redfield, 1848
- Persicula cingulata Dillwyn, 1817
- Persicula cordorae Jong & Coomans, 1988
- Persicula cornea Lamarck, 1822
- Persicula cypraeoides Adams, 1845
- Persicula danilai Bozzetti, 1992
- Persicula deburghi A. Adams, 1864
- Persicula denansiana Ancey, 1881
- Persicula fluctuata Adams, 1850
- Persicula frumentum Sowerby II, 1832
- Persicula hennequini Boyer, Neefs & Wickfield, 1998
- Persicula hilli Smith, 1950
- Persicula imbricata Hinds, 1844
- Persicula interruptolineata Muhlfeld, 1816
- Persicula kienerianum Petit, 1838
- Persicula maculosa (Kiener, 1834)
- Persicula masirana Roth & Petit, 1972
- Persicula multilineata Sowerby II, 1846
- Persicula muralis Hinds, 1844
- Persicula obesa Redfield, 1846
- Persicula persicula Linné, 1758 T
- Persicula persiculocingulata Tournier, 1997
- Persicula phrygia Sowerby III, 1846
- Persicula porcellana Gmelin, 1791
- Persicula pulchella Kiener, 1830
- Persicula pulcherrima Gaskoin, 1849
- Persicula rashafuni Bozzetti, 1993
- Persicula robusta Sowerby III, 1904
- Persicula sagittata Hinds, 1844
- Persicula shepstonensis Smith, 1906
- Persicula tayrona Diaz & Velasquez, 1987
- Persicula testai Bozzetti, 1993
- Persicula thomensis Tomlin, 1918
- Persicula weberi Olsson & McGinty, 1958
