Pusionella nifat

Pusionella nifat is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]

Pusionella nifat var. scalarina, the shouldered form

Pusionella nifat
Five views of a shell of Pusionella nifat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Pusionella
Species:
P. nifat
Binomial name
Pusionella nifat
(Bruguiere, 1789)
Synonyms[1]
  • Buccinum nifat Bruguiere, 1789
  • Fusus albocinctus Petit de la Saussaye, 1851
  • Fusus scalarinus Lamarck, 1816
  • Pusionella albocincta (Petit de la Saussaye, 1851)

Description

The whorls are usually narrowly shouldered above. The shell is whitish under a light olivaceous, thin epidermis, with several revolving series of square chestnut spots. The base is constricted, with a few engraved striae. The shouldered form is Pusionella nifat scalarina[3]

This species differs from Pusionella vulpina by its median white band.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa (Gabon, Cameroon) and Angola. Living species have been dredged up in the Mediterranean Sea off Algeria.[3]

References
  1. Pusionella nifat (Bruguiere, 1789). 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
  • Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp.
  • Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp.
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