Pusionella buccinata

Pusionella buccinata
Apertural view of a shell of Pusionella buccinata (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Clavatulidae
Genus:Pusionella
Species: P. buccinata
Binomial name
Pusionella buccinata
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]

Fusus buccinatus Lamarck, 1822

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

This species has also been considered a synonym of Pusionella vulpina [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off West Africa.

References

  1. 1 2 Pusionella buccinata (Lamarck, 1822).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species 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
  • Lamarck, JBPA de M. "de, 1822." Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertébrés 7 (1815).
  • Finet Y. & Snyder M.A. (2012). Illustrations and taxonomic placement of the Recent Fusus and Fasciolaria in the Lamarck collection of the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva (Caenogastropoda, Buccinoidea, Gastropoda). Zootaxa. 3507: 1-37 page(s): figs 14-15


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