Pusionella albocincta

Pusionella albocincta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Pusionella
Species: P. albocincta
Binomial name
Pusionella albocincta
(Petit de la Saussaye, 1851)
Synonyms[1]

Fusus albocinctus Petit de la Saussaye, 1851

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

Contents

Description

This species differs from Pusionella vulpina by its median white band. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean along West Africa.

References

  1. ^ a b Pusionella albocinctus (Petit de la Saussaye, 1851).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434830 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. 235; 1884