Persicula cingulata is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae.[1]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Cystiscidae |
Subfamily: | Persiculinae |
Genus: | Persicula |
Species: | P. cingulata
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Binomial name | |
Persicula cingulata (Dillwyn, 1817)
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Description
edit(Described as Marginella vittata) The shell has a subcylindrical shape and is rather flattened below. The spire is concealed. The columella shows four or five plaits near the anterior end. The outer lip is not thickened (youug specimen ?). The shell is yellowish white, with thin interrupted spiral bands of brown. The columella is white.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Senegal, Mauritania and the Cape Verdes; also off New Zealand.
References
edit- Adanson, M., 1757 Histoire naturelle du Sénégal. Coquillages, p. 275 p, 19 pls
- Fischer-Piette, E., 1942. Les mollusques d'Adanson. Journal de Conchyliologie 85: 104-366
- Tournier, A. (1997). New species from Senegal / Nouvelle espece du Senegal Marginella (Persicula) persiculocingulata. World Shells. 23: 71–72.
- Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
- Wolff, W.J.; Duiven, P.; Esselink, P.; Gueve, A. (1993). Biomass of macrobenthic tidal flat fauna of the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania. Hydrobiologia 258(1-3): 151-163
External links
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