Pollia fumosa

Pollia fumosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Pisaniidae
Genus:	Pollia
Species:	P. fumosa
Binomial name
	Pollia fumosa; (Dillwyn, 1817)
Synonyms
	Buccinum fumosum Dillwyn, 1817; Cantharus fumosus (Dillwyn, 1817); Tritonidea fumosa (Dillwyn, 1817);

Pollia fumosa, common name : the smoky goblet, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pisaniidae.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 20 mm and 40 mm

This species is distributed in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean along Chagos, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin and Tanzania and the Western Pacific Ocean - and off Queensland, Australia.

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