Biology:Pusia monilifera
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Pusia |
| Species: | P. monilifera
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| Pusia monilifera (C. B. Adams, 1850)
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Pusia monilifera is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 4.32 mm, its diameter 2.79 mm.
(Original description) The shape of the shell is somewhere between a fusiform and rhomboidal. The shell is brownish black, with a white spiral band which is a little above the suture, and which is small and indistinct on the upper whorls and increases with the progress of growth, and which is dilated into spots on the ribs. The shell has rather acute longitudinal ribs, about fourteen on each whorl, and numerous excessively minute unequal raised spiral lines, which are larger at the anterior extemity, and more nodulous on the ribs. They have anteriorly a broad well impressed groove, which commences in the aperture above the plaits, and contracts the general form. The apex is acute. The spire shows nearly rectilinear outlines. The contains eight or nine whorls, rather convex, with a rather deep suture. The columella has four plaits. [2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Jamaica.
References
- ↑ Pusia monilifera (C. B. Adams, 1850). 24 March 2026. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ↑ Adams, C. B. (1850). Descriptions of supposed new species of marine shells, which inhabit Jamaica. Contributions to Conchology. vol. 1: 56-68
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External links
- Marine Mollusca from Guanahacabibes peninsula, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, with description of new taxa; Vexillum moniliferum # 299; Avicennia : revista de ecología, oceanología y biodiversidad tropical n. 18 (2005)
- 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q7924098 entry
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