Pusionella ghanaensis
| Pusionella ghanaensis | |
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| Shell of Pusionella ghanaensis (holotype in MNHN, Paris) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Clavatulidae |
| Genus: | Pusionella |
| Species: | P. ghanaensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Pusionella ghanaensis Boyer & Ryall, 2006[1]
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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. The protoconch is small (0.3 mm in width), smooth, and light mauve. The teleoconch consists of nearly 10 smooth and shiny whorls with an acute apex and a narrow, slightly stepped spire. Spiral furrows vary from 3 on the upper whorls to 7 on the lower, with some deeper and wider furrows below the suture. The aperture is narrow, about 42% of the shell length, with a short, sinuous siphonal canal and a well-marked siphonal notch but no anal notch. The shell’s ground color is white with mauve on the spire top and rows of light honey brown axial marks separated by white spiral bands.[2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Ghana.
References
- ^ Boyer & Ryall. 2006. Iberus Volume: 24 Issue: 2 Pages: 33-38. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 4 April 2010.
- ^ a b c Pusionella ghanaensis Boyer & Ryall, 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 August 2011.
- ^ 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
External links
- "Pusionella ghanaensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.