Pusionella rapulum

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

Pusionella rapulum
Drawing of a shell of Pusionella rapulum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Pusionella
Species:
P. rapulum
Binomial name
Pusionella rapulum
Reeve [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Fusus wallaysi Petit de la Saussaye, S., 1851

Description

The oblong shell is ovate The whorls are compressedly gibbous, forming a round shoulder, constricted and with revolving striae towards the base. Otherwise, the shell is smooth, except that the upper whorls of the spire are slightly longitudinally plicate. The color of the shell is whitish, under a very thin, smooth, yellowish brown epidermis. The inside of the aperture is often yellowish brown. There is a heavy, white callous deposit at the upper extremity of the inner margin of the aperture.[1] The siphonal canal is short.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Indonesia.

gollark: ++remind 10s Reminding 2™
gollark: Test.
gollark: Well, this is bad.
gollark: ++tel graph
gollark: Test 3.

References
  1. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI, p. 235; 1884
  2. Pusionella rapulum Tryon, 1884. 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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.