''Pseudopusula antillarum'' is a

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of small

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, a marine

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mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

in the

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Triviidae Triviidae is a taxonomic family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cypraeoidea of the order Littorinimorpha. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Triviidae Troschel, 1863. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...

, the false cowries or Cleotrivias.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Pseudopusula antillarum (Schilder, 1922). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1026128 on 2020-08-20

Description

The maximum recorded

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length is 6 mm.Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". '' PLoS ONE'' 5(1): e8776. .

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 9 m. Maximum recorded depth is 525 m.

References

* Fehse D. & Grego J. (2017). Contributions to the knowledge of the Triviidae, XXXV. A new species in the genus Cleotrivia Iredale, 1930 from the Galápagos Archipelago (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Conchylia. 48(1-2): 3-7

External links

Schilder F.A. (1922). Contributions to the knowledge of the genera Cypraea and Trivia. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 15: 98-122
Triviidae Gastropods described in 1922 {{Triviidae-stub