Gyrineum pusillum

Gyrineum pusillum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Tonnoidea
Family:	Ranellidae
Subfamily:	Ranellinae
Genus:	Gyrineum
Species:	G. pusillum
Binomial name
	Gyrineum pusillum; (Broderip, 1833)
Synonyms[1]
	Apollon pusillus (Broderip, 1833); Gyrineum pusilla (Brodrip, 1833) (Spelling variation); Gyrineum pusillus Broderip (Spelling vatiation); Ranella pusilla Broderip, 1833 (basionym);

Gyrineum pusillum, common name the purple gyron triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 25 mm.

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Tanzania and Aldabra

1 2 Gyrineum pusillum (Broderip, 1833) . WoRMS (2010). Apollon pusillus. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208004 on 27 June 2010.

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Taylor, J.D. (1973). Provisional list of the mollusca of Aldabra Atoll.
Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp
Beu A. (2010). Catalogue of Tonnoidea

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