Pusia microzonias | |
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Shell of Pusia microzonias (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
Family: | Costellariidae |
Genus: | Pusia |
Species: | P. microzonias
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Binomial name | |
Pusia microzonias (Lamarck, 1811)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Pusia microzonias is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
The length of the shell attains 9.3 mm, its diameter 4.1 mm.
(Described as Mitra microzonias) The shell shows a row of white spots so arranged as to come one on each rib, forming a chain on the centre of the body whorl. [2]
This marine species occurs off Fiji and in many other parts of the western Pacific, from Indonesia to the Marshall Islands. [3]