Pisania pusio

Pisania pusio
Five views of a shell of Pisania pusio
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Pisaniidae
Genus:	Pisania
Species:	P. pusio
Binomial name
Pisania pusio (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Buccinum janeirensePhilippi, 1849 Fusus articulatusLamarck, 1822 Pisania janeirensis(Philippi, 1849)

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

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, Cuba, the Caribbean Sea and off the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean off Ascension Island, the Bermudas and Eastern Brazil.

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

External links

• "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