Pusionella aculeiformis

Pusionella aculeiformis
Drawing of Pusionella aculeiformis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Pusionella
Species: P. aculeiformis
Binomial name
Pusionella aculeiformis
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms
  • Fusus catelini Petit de la Saussaye, S., 1851
  • Pusionella recurvirostris Marrat, F.P., 1877
  • Pusionella aculeiformis vexans (f) Strebel, H., 1914

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

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 31 mm and 54 mm. The shell is elongated. The whorls of the spire are more or less plicately ribbed, sometimes only the upper ones. The body whorl is smooth except at the base, where there are revolving grooves. The color of the shell is very light grayish yellow, or yellowish brown, or chestnut. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean along West Africa and particularly Gabon

References

  1. ^ Pusionella aculeiformis (Lamarck, 1822).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225543 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. 
  3. ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI, p. 23; 1884

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