Pusia microzonias

Pusia microzonias is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]

Pusia microzonias
Shell of Pusia microzonias (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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]
  • Mitra infrafasciata Souverbie, 1865
  • Mitra microzonias Lamarck, 1811
  • Pusia (Pusia) microzonias (Lamarck, 1811)
  • Vexillum (Pusia) microzonias (Lamarck, 1811)
  • Vexillum microzonias (Lamarck, 1811)

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Description

The length of the shell attains 9.3 mm, its diameter 4.1 mm.

(Described as Mitra microzonias) The shell shows a row of white spots so arranged as to come one on each rib, forming a chain on the centre of the body whorl. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Fiji and in many other parts of the western Pacific, from Indonesia to the Marshall Islands. [3]

References
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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