Pusionella buccinata

Pusionella buccinata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2] Found by Lamarck in 1822.

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

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

Description

Distribution

This marine species occurs off West Africa.

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References

  1. 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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