Persicula persicula
| Persicula persicula | |
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| Persicula persicula, drawing from Index Testarum Conchyliorum (1742) of Niccolò Gualtieri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Cystiscidae |
| Subfamily: | Persiculinae |
| Genus: | Persicula |
| Species: | P. persicula |
| Binomial name | |
| Persicula persicula (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Persicula persicula, common name : the spotted marginella, is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae.[1]
Description
The shell size varies between 13 mm and 25 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Atlantic Ocean along Cape Verde, Mauritania, Guinea and Liberia; in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar.
References
- 1 2 Persicula persicula (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 December 2010.
- Dautzenberg, P. (1923). Liste preliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux especes nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 68: 21-74
- Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda
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