''Pyruclia'' is a

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Cancellariidae Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family (biology), family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. Some of the shells of the species in this ...

, the nutmeg snails.

Species

Species within the genus ''Pyruclia'' include: * '' Pyruclia bulbulus'' Sowerby, 1832 * '' Pyruclia pyrum'' A. Adams & Reeve, 1850 * '' Pyruclia solida'' G.B. Sowerby I, 1832

References

* Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. (2005) Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)- 2nd edition. Zootaxa, 1102, 3-161. NIZT 682 * Hemmen J. (2007) Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, Recent Cancellariidae by Jens Hemmen, 2007. Conchologia Ingrata 9: 1-8. https://web.archive.org/web/20120831144310/http://conchologia.com/publication_pdf/13.pdf] Cancellariidae {{Cancellariidae-stub