Gyrineum pusillum

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Gyrineum pusillum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cymatiidae
Genus: Gyrineum
Species:
G. pusillum
Binomial name
Gyrineum pusillum
(Broderip, 1833)
Synonyms [1]
  • Apollon pusillus (Broderip, 1833)
  • Gyrineum pusilla (Brodrip, 1833) (Spelling variation)
  • Gyrineum pusillus Broderip (Spelling vatiation)
  • Ranella pusilla Broderip, 1833 (basionym)

Gyrineum pusillum, common name the purple gyron triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae. [1]

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Description

The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 25 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Tanzania and Aldabra

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