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Persicula persicula

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(Redirected from Persicula maculata) Species of gastropod

Persicula persicula
Persicula persicula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cystiscidae
Subfamily: Persiculinae
Genus: Persicula
Species: P. persicula
Binomial name
Persicula persicula
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
  • Marginella persicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Marginella punctata (Martini, 1771)
  • Marginella bobi (Fischer von Waldheim, 1807)
  • Persicula guttata Link, 1807
  • Marginella variabilis Schumacher, 1817
  • Persicula variabilis Schumacher, 1817
  • Persicula maculata Swainson, 1840
  • Persicula persiculocingulata Tournier, 1997
  • Prunum roscidum f. spilota Mazyck, 1911
  • Voluta persicula Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)

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.

Description

The shell size varies between 13 mm and 25 mm

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (April 2010)

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Verde, Mauritania and Liberia.

References

  1. ^ Persicula persicula (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 December 2018.
  • Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda
  • Boyer F. (2015). Révision des marginelles de Linné (Mollusques prosobranches : Marginellidae et Cystiscidae). Xenophora Taxonomy. 8: 33-55

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Taxon identifiers
Persicula persicula


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