Pusionella nifat

Pusionella nifat
Apertural view of a shell of Pusionella nifat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Pusionella
Species: P. nifat
Binomial name
Pusionella nifat
(Bruguiere, 1789)
Synonyms[1]
  • Buccinum nifat Bruguiere, 1789
  • Fusus albocinctus Petit de la Saussaye, 1851
  • Fusus scalarinus Lamarck, 1816
  • Pusionella albocincta (Petit de la Saussaye, 1851)

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

the shouldered form of Pusionella nifat

Description

The whorls are usually narrowly shouldered above. The shell is whitish under a light olivaceous, thin epidermis, with several revolving series of square chestnut spots. The base is constricted, with a few engraved striae. The shouldered form is Pusionella nifat scalarina[3]

This species differs from Pusionella vulpina by its median white band. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa (Gabon) and Angola. Living species have been dredged up in the Mediterranean Sea off Algeria.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Pusionella nifat (Bruguiere, 1789).  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. 1 2 3 George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 235; 1884
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