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Pusia microzonias
Shell of Pusia microzonias (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific 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
Mitra infrafasciata Souverbie, 1865 Mitra microzonias Lamarck, 1811 Pusia (Pusia) microzonias (Lamarck, 1811) Vexillum (Pusia) microzonias (Lamarck, 1811) Vexillum microzonias (Lamarck, 1811) &display_parents= 3

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

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.

Distribution

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

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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

External links

• W.O.Cernohorsky, The Mitridae of Fiji - The Veliger v. 8 (1965-1966)

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