Pusia microzonias

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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

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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

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

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