Pusia chickcharneora

Pusia chickcharneora
Shell of Pusia chickcharneora (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Costellariidae
Genus: Pusia
Species:
P. chickcharneora
Binomial name
Pusia chickcharneora
(Lyons & Kaicher, 1978)
Synonyms
  • Vexillum chickcharneorum W.G. Lyons & S.D. Kaicher, 1978
  • Vexillum (Pusia) chickcharneorum Lyons & Kaicher, 1978

Pusia chickcharneora is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 9.4 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Bahamas.

References

  • Lyons, William G.; Kaicher, Sally D.(1978) - A New Vexillum of the Subgenus Pusia (Gastropoda: Vexillidae) from the Bahamas; Bulletin of Marine Science, Volume 28, Number 3, July 1978, pp. 543-549(7)
  • Fedosov, A.; Bouchet, P.; Dekkers, A.; Gori, S.; Huang, S.-I.; Kantor, Y.; Lemarcis, T.; Marrow, M.; Ratti, C.; Rosenberg, G.; Salisbury, R.; Zvonareva, S.; Puillandre, N. (2025). "The phylogeny and systematics of the Costellariidae (Caenogastropoda: Turbinelloidea) revisited". Invertebrate Systematics. 39 (7): 26. doi:10.1071/is24101. PMID 40608992.