Pisania pusio

Pisania pusio
Four views of a shell of Pisania pusio (museum specimens)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Pisania
Species: P. pusio
Binomial name
Pisania pusio
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Pisania pusio is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 19 mm and 51 mm. The color of the shell is chocolate or purplish, with revolving series of red-brown arrowheaded markings.The interior of the aperture is bluish . The columella and the edge of the outer lip has a fawn color. There is usually a white central band on the body. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and off the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean off Ascension Island, the Bermudas and Eastern Brasil.

References

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