Pusia microzonias
Pusia microzonias is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
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| Shell of Pusia microzonias (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Pusia |
| Species: | P. microzonias |
| Binomial name | |
| Pusia microzonias (Lamarck, 1811) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
The length of the shell attains 9.3 mm, its diameter 4.1 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Fiji and in many other parts of the western Pacific, from Indonesia to the Marshall Islands. [2]
References
- MolluscaBase (2018). Pusia microzonias (Lamarck, 1811). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=957117 on 2018-12-31
- Ladd, H.S. (1977). Cenozoic fossil mollusks from western Pacific islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 533: i–iv, 1–84, pls 1–23
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