''Pugnus'' is a
genus
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of very small
sea snail
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s,
marine gastropod
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mollusk
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s or
micromollusk
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s in the
family
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Granulinidae
Granulinidae are a family (biology), family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Granulinidae G. A. Coovert & H. K. Coovert, 1995. Access ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Pugnus'' include:
*''
Pugnus lachrimula''
(Gould
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* Gould, Arkansas, a city
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, 1862)
*''
Pugnus maesae''
Roth, 1972
*''
Pugnus margaritella''
Faber, 2006
* ''
Pugnus mirbatensis''
Cossignani & Lorenz, 2018
*''
Pugnus parvus''
Hedley, 1896
*''
Pugnus tarasconii''
Rios, 2009
;Species brought into synonymy:
*''Pugnus serrei''
(Bavay
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Geography
Bavay is located some 20 km east by south-east of Valenciennes and 10 k ...
, 1911):
synonym of ''
Marginellopsis serrei''
Bavay, 1911
References
* Boyer F. (2017). Révision de l'organisation supra-spécifique des gastéropodes granuliniformes. Xenophora Taxonomy. 16: 25-38
External links
Hedley, C. (1896). Description of Pugnus, a new genus of Ringiculidae, from Sydney Harbour. Records of the Australian Museum. 2(7): 105-106
Granulinidae
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