Pusionella buccinata

Pusionella buccinata
Apertural view of a shell of Pusionella buccinata (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Clavatulidae
Genus:	Pusionella
Species:	P. buccinata
Binomial name
Pusionella buccinata (Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms [1]
Fusus buccinatusLamarck, 1822

Pusionella buccinata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae. ^{[1] [2]} It was first described by Lamarck in 1822.

This species has also been considered a synonym of Pusionella vulpina . ^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off West Africa.

References

1. Pusionella buccinata (Lamarck, 1822) . 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. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 235; 1884

• Lamarck, JBPA de M. "de, 1822." Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertébrés 7 (1815).
• 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): figs 14–15