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Pascula
Sign in to savePascula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyMuricidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 148
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Muricidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UF, NMV, SBMNH, USNM
- Recorded in
- Ecuador, Japan, Kiribati, Philippines, Australia, Mariana Islands, United States, Comoros Islands
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Pascula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
==Species== Species within the genus Pascula include: Pascula citrica (Dall, 1908) Pascula darrosensis (E.A. Smith, 1884) Pascula muricata (Reeve, 1846) Pascula ochrostoma (Blainville, 1832) Pascula ozenneana (Crosse, 1861) Pascula palmeri (Powell, 1967) Pascula philpoppei Houart, 2018 Pascula rufonotata (Carpenter, 1864) Pascula submissa (E. A. Smith, 1903) Species brought into synonymy: Pascula ambonensis Houart, 1996: synonym of Cytharomorula ambonensis (Houart, 1996) Pascula ferruginosa Reeve, 1846: synonym of Claremontiella nodulosa (C. B. Adams, 1845) Pascula lefevreiana (Tapparone-Canefri, 1880): synonym of Cytharomorula lefevreiana (Tapparone-Canefri, 1880)
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