Pusionella ghanaensis

Pusionella ghanaensis
Shell of Pusionella ghanaensis (holotype in MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Clavatulidae
Genus:Pusionella
Species: P. ghanaensis
Binomial name
Pusionella ghanaensis
Boyer & Ryall, 2006[1]

Pusionella ghanaensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[2][3]

Description

The length of the shell attains 25 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Ghana.

References

  1. ↑ Boyer & Ryall. 2006. Iberus Volume: 24 Issue: 2 Pages: 33-38. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 4 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Pusionella ghanaensis Boyer & Ryall, 2006.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 August 2011.
  3. ↑ 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.
  • Boyer F. & Ryall P. 2006. Two new Clavatulinae species (Caenogastropoda: Turridae) from Ghana. Iberus 24(2): 33-38


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