Pusionella

Pusionella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clavatulidae.

Description

The fusiform shell is solid, smooth and shining, with numerous whorls. The spire is sharp. The lip lacks an anal sinus. The siphonal canal is short, and exteriorly carinated at the base. The columella is twisted anteriorly. The operculum has a lateral nucleus. The eyes are located at the external bases of the tentacles.

Distribution

This genus occurs off the western coast of Africa.

Species

Species within the genus Pusionella include:

• Pusionella buccinata <small>(Lamarck, 1822)</small>
• Pusionella compacta <small>Strebel, 1914</small>
• Pusionella ghanaensis <small>Boyer & Ryall, 2006</small>
• Pusionella lirata <small>Adams A., 1853</small>
• Pusionella lupinus <small>(Philippi, 1850)</small>
• Pusionella nifat <small>(Bruguiere, 1789)</small>
• † Pusionella pseudofusus <small>(Desmoulins, 1842)</small> (fossil in depositis from the Miocene, Burdigalian, Graves near Bordeaux, France)
• Pusionella rapulum <small>Tryon, 1884</small>
• Pusionella remorata <small>Sykes, 1905</small>
• Pusionella valida <small>(Dunker, 1852)</small>
• Pusionella vulpina <small>(Born, 1780)</small>

Species brought into synonymy:

• Pusionella aculeiformis <small>(Lamarck, 1822)</small>: synonym of Perrona aculeiformis <small>(Lamarck, 1816)</small>
• Pusionella albocincta <small>(Petit de la Saussaye, 1851)</small>: synonym of Pusionella nifat <small>(Bruguière, 1789)</small>
• Pusionella catelini <small>(Petit de la Saussaye, 1851)</small> accepted as Perrona aculeiformis <small>(Lamarck, 1816)</small>
• Pusionella grandis <small>A. Adams, 1853</small> : synonym of Pusionella valida <small>(Dunker, 1852)</small>
• Pusionella haasi <small>Dautzenberg, 1912:</small> synonym of Pusionella valida <small>(Dunker, 1852)</small>
• Pusionella kraepelini <small>Strebel, 1914</small>: synonym of Clavatula kraepelini <small>(Strebel, 1914)</small>
• Pusionella milleti milleti <small>(Petit de la Saussaye, 1851)</small> : synonym of Clavatula milleti <small>(Petit de la Saussaye, 1851)</small>
• Pusionella milleti subgranulatus <small>(Petit de la Saussaye, 1851)</small>: synonym of Clavatula milleti <small>(Petit de la Saussaye, 1851)</small>
• Pusionella rafel <small>Pallary, P., 1920</small>: synonym of Pusionella vulpina <small>(Born, 1780)</small>
• Pusionella recurvirostris <small>Marrat, 1877</small> accepted as Pusionella aculeiformis <small>(Lamarck, 1816)</small> accepted as Perrona aculeiformis <small>(Lamarck, 1816)</small>
• Pusionella scripta <small>Nordsieck, 1975</small>: synonym of Mitrella broderipi <small>(G.B. Sowerby I, 1844)</small>
• Pusionella testabilis <small>Jousseaume, 1896</small>: synonym of Daphnella rissoides <small>(Reeve, 1843)</small>

References

• Petit R.E. (2012) John Edward Gray (1800-1875): his malacological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 3214: 1-125. page(s): 137; note: type species fixation under Art. 70.3

External links

• Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219.
• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308