Pluscula cuica

Pluscula cuica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Euopisthobranchia
clade Cephalaspidea
Superfamily: Philinoidea[1]
Family: Plusculidae
Franc, 1968[2]
Genus: Pluscula
Er. Marcus, 1953[3]
Species: P. cuica
Binomial name
Pluscula cuica
Er. Marcus, 1953

Pluscula cuica is a species of marine snail, gastropod mollusk in the superfamily Philinoidea[1] within the clade Cephalaspidea.[4]

Pluscula cuica is the only species in the genus Pluscula.[5] Genus Pluscula was the only genus in the family Plusculidae,[4] before the family was abolished and considered synonyms of Philinoglossidae.[6]

Distribution

This species occurs off Sao Paulo, Brazil[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  2. ↑ Franc (1968). Traité de Zoologie 5(3): 612.
  3. ↑ Marcus E. (1953). Bol. Fac. Filos. Cienc. S. Paulo. (Zool.) 18: 176-181.
  4. 1 2 Malaquias M. A. E., Dodds J. M., Bouchet P. & Reid D. G. (2009). "A molecular phylogeny of the Cephalaspidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Euthyneura): Architectibranchia redefined and Runcinacea reinstated". Zoologica Scripta 38(1): 23-41. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00354.x.
  5. ↑ WoRMS. "Pluscula Er. Marcus, 1953". World Register of Marine Species.
  6. ↑ WoRMS. "Plusculidae Franc, 1968". World Register of Marine Species.
  7. ↑ "Pluscula cuica Er. Marcus, 1953". Malacolog Version 4.1.1. A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. accessed 26 December 2010.


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