Pisania pusio

Pisania pusio is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pisaniidae.[1]

Pisania pusio
Five views of a shell of Pisania pusio
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Buccinoidea
Family:
Pisaniidae
Genus:
Pisania
Species:
P. pusio
Binomial name
Pisania pusio
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
  • Buccinum janeirense Philippi, 1849
  • Fusus articulatus Lamarck, 1822
  • Pisania janeirensis (Philippi, 1849)

Description

The size of the shell varies between 19 mm and 51 mm. The color of the shell is chocolate or purplish, with revolving series of red-brown arrowheaded markings. The interior of the aperture is bluish . The columella and the edge of the outer lip has a fawn color. There is usually a white central band on the body.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and off the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean off Ascension Island, the Bermudas and Eastern Brasil.

References
  1. Pisania pusio (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  2. G.W. Tryon (1880–1881) Manual of Conchology III, Academy of natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  • 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): fig. 13
  • "Pisania (Pisania) pusio pusio". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
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