Biology:Pusia histrio
| Pusia histrio | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Pusia histrio | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Pusia |
| Species: | P. histrio
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| Binomial name | |
| Pusia histrio (Reeve, 1844)
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Pusia histrio, common name the harlequin miter, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 19 mm.
(Original description) The ovate shell has a short spire. It is longitudinally ribbed with the ribs rather obtuse and granulated towards the base. The interstices are transversely striated. The shell is bright scarlet, the sutures are black, sometimes clouded with black, encircled with a narrow black and a white belt. The columella is four-plaited.[2]
(Described as Mitra ansulata) The shell is somewhat truncated, brown and smooth. The obtuse spire is as long as the aperture. The whorls are obtusely angular and ornamented with a chain-like row of oval white spots.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the western Atlantic Ocean.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pusia histrio (Reeve, 1844). 23 March 2026. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ↑ Reeve, L. A. (1844-1845). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 2, pl. 1-39 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ↑ Sowerby, G. B. II. (1874). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 4 (31-32): 1–46, pls 352–379. London, privately published
- Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp
- Nowell-Usticke, G.W. (1959) A Check List of the Marine Shells of St. Croix U. S. Virgin Islands with Random Annotations. G.W. Nowell-Usticke, St. Croix, 90 pp., 4 pls.
External links
- Fedosov, A.; Bouchet, P.; Dekkers, A.; Gori, S.; Huang, S.-I.; Kantor, Y.; Lemarcis, T.; Marrow, M. et al. (2025). "The phylogeny and systematics of the Costellariidae (Caenogastropoda: Turbinelloidea) revisited". Invertebrate Systematics 39 (7): 26. doi:10.1071/is24101. PMID 40608992. https://hal.science/hal-05142403.
- Sealifebase.org: image
Wikidata ☰ Q3168591 entry
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