Pulsarella clevei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
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| Shell of Pulsarella clevei (lectotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Pulsarella |
| Species: | P. clevei
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| Binomial name | |
| Pulsarella clevei (Jousseaume, 1883)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 9 mm. The shell is spirally costate. Its color is white, fasciate with light brown. The outer lip crenulate, ridged within, with a shallow, wide sinus. The columellar lip has a median callosity.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Sri Lanka
References
edit- ^ a b WoRMS (2015). Pulsarella cognata. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434827 on 2016-03-21
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
- Kilburn R.N. (1986). Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 3. Subfamily Borsoniinae. Annals of the Natal Museum. 27: 633–720.
External links
edit- "Pulsarella clevei". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Jousseaume, F. (1883). Description d’espèces et genres nouveaux de mollusques. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 8: 186-204, pl. 10. page(s): 200
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