- Persicula persicula
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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 NeogastropodaSuperfamily: 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]
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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
- ^ a b Persicula persicula (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224729 on 5 December 2010.
- Dautzenberg, P. (1923). Liste preliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux especes nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 68: 21-74
- Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda
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