Pusionella nifat

Pusionella nifat
Drawing of Pusionella nifat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Pusionella
Species: P. nifat
Binomial name
Pusionella nifat
(Bruguiere, 1789)
Synonyms[1]

Buccinum nifat Bruguiere, 1789

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

Description

The whorls are usually narrowly shouldered above. The shell is whitish under a light olivaceous, thin epidermis, with several revolving series of square chestnut spots. The base is constricted, with a few engraved striae. The shouldered form is Pusionella nifat scalarina[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean along West Africa (Gabon) and Angola. Living species have been dredged up in the Mediterranean Sea along Algeria. [3]

References

  1. ^ a b Pusionella nifat (Bruguiere, 1789).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224450 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. ^ a b George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 235; 1884

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