Persicula

Taxobox
name = "Persicula"

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Neogastropoda
familia = Cystiscidae
subfamilia = Persiculinae
genus = "Persicula"
genus_authority = Schumacher, 1817

"Persicula" is a taxonomic genus of minute to small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. It includes several species which are micromollusks.

This genus is sometimes placed in the family Cystiscidae, and is sometimes instead left in the family Marginellidae the margin snails. It is within the infraorder Neogastropoda.

(Note: Gastropod taxonomy has been in flux for more than half a century, and this is especially true currently, because of new research in molecular phylogeny. Because of all the on-going changes, different reliable sources can yield very different classifications.)

Habitat

Species in this genus live from the intertidal zone to 370 m in depth.

Shell description

In this genus the shell is minute to small. It can be uniformly colored or white, and the color can be patterned. The shell is moderately thick to thick. The spire is usually immersed. The lip of the aperture is thickened, and weakly to strongly lirate.

An external varix can be present or absent. There is a distinct siphonal notch present and a posterior notch is also present. The collumela is multiplicate, with 4 to 13 plications plus parietal lirae.

Description of soft parts

The animal has long tentacles, and the siphon is also usually long. The mantle appears not to extend completely over the external shell surface.

Type species of the genus

"P. variabilis" Schumacher, 1817 = "Voluta persicula" Linné, 1758; M

Species

* "Persicula accola" Roth & Coan, 1968
* "Persicula adamsiana" Pilsbry & Love, 1932
* "Persicula albomaculata" May, 1911
* "Persicula bandera" Coan & Roth, 1965
* "Persicula blanda" Hinds, 1844
* "Persicula brinkae" Bozzetti, 1993
* "Persicula bulbulina" Locard
* "Persicula calculus" Redfield, 1870
* "Persicula canaryensis" Clover, 1972
* "Persicula cassidiforme" Gaskoin, 1853
* "Persicula catenata" Montagu, 1803
* "Persicula chrysomelina" Redfield, 1848
* "Persicula cingulata" Dillwyn, 1817
* "Persicula cordorae" Jong & Coomans, 1988
* "Persicula cornea" Lamarck, 1822
* "Persicula cypraeoides" Adams, 1845
* "Persicula danilai" Bozzetti, 1992
* "Persicula deburghi" A. Adams, 1864
* "Persicula denansiana" Ancey, 1881
* "Persicula fluctuata" Adams, 1850
* "Persicula frumentum" Sowerby II, 1832
* "Persicula hennequini" Boyer, Neefs & Wickfield, 1998
* "Persicula hilli" Smith, 1950
* "Persicula imbricata" Hinds, 1844
* "Persicula interruptolineata" Muhlfeld, 1816
* "Persicula kienerianum" Petit, 1838
* "Persicula maculosa" (Kiener, 1834)
* "Persicula masirana" Roth & Petit, 1972
* "Persicula multilineata" Sowerby II, 1846
* "Persicula muralis" Hinds, 1844
* "Persicula obesa" Redfield, 1846
* "Persicula persicula" Linné, 1758 T
* "Persicula persiculocingulata" Tournier, 1997
* "Persicula phrygia" Sowerby III, 1846
* "Persicula porcellana" Gmelin, 1791
* "Persicula pulchella" Kiener, 1830
* "Persicula pulcherrima" Gaskoin, 1849
* "Persicula rashafuni" Bozzetti, 1993
* "Persicula robusta" Sowerby III, 1904
* "Persicula sagittata" Hinds, 1844
* "Persicula shepstonensis" Smith, 1906
* "Persicula tayrona" Diaz & Velasquez, 1987
* "Persicula testai" Bozzetti, 1993
* "Persicula thomensis" Tomlin, 1918
* "Persicula weberi" Olsson & McGinty, 1958