Persicula persicula

Persicula persicula
Persicula persicula, drawing from Index Testarum Conchyliorum (1742) of Niccolò Gualtieri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Cystiscidae
Subfamily: Persiculinae
Genus: Persicula
Species: P. persicula
Binomial name
Persicula persicula
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
  • Marginella persicula Linnaeus, 1758
  • Marginella punctata Martini, F.H.W., 1771
  • Marginella bobi Fischer von Waldheim, G., 1807
  • Persicula guttata Link, H.F., 1807
  • Marginella variabilis Schumacher, H.C.F., 1817
  • Persicula variabilis Schumacher, H.C.F., 1817
  • Persicula maculata Swainson, W.A., 1840
  • Persicula persiculocingulata Tournier, 1997

Persicula persicula, common name : the spotted marginella, is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae.[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 13 mm and 25 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Atlantic Ocean along Cape Verde, Mauritania, Guinea and Liberia; in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar.

References

  1. 1 2 Persicula persicula (Linnaeus, 1758).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 December 2010.


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