Pisania fasciculata

Pisania fasciculata
Shell of Pisania fasciculata (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Pisaniidae
Genus:	Pisania
Species:	P. fasciculata
Binomial name
Pisania fasciculata (Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms
Buccinum fasciculatum Reeve, 1846 (original combination) Pisania crenilabrum A. Adams, 1855 Pisania montrouzieri Crosse, 1862 Triton (Pusio) vexillum Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833 (senior synonym)

Pisania fasciculata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pisaniidae, first described in 1846 by Lovell Augustus Reeve as Buccinum fasciculatum.^[1]

The length of the shell attains 19.5 mm.

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This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off the Mascarene Basin; also off New Caledonia.

• Crosse, H., 1862 Journal de Conchyliologie, 10:
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• Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
• Drivas, J.; Jay, M. (1987). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection Les Beautés de la Nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. ISBN 2-603-00654-1. 159 pp.
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• Reeve, L. A. (1846-1847). Monograph of the genus Buccinum. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 3, pl. 1-14 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.
• Adams, A. (1855). Descriptions of thirty-nine new species of shells, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1854) 22: 130-138, pl. 28
• Griffith E. & Pidgeon E. (1833-1834). The Mollusca and Radiata. Vol. 12, In: E. Griffith, [1824−1835, The Animal Kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, (...). London: Whittaker and Co., viii + 601 pp., 61 pls.]

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