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Persicula
Sign in to savePersicula is a taxonomic genus of minute to small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. It includes several species which are micromollusks.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyCystiscidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 435
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Cystiscidae
- Collections
- UF, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, DMNS, UCMP, ANSP, PRI
- Recorded in
- United States, Senegal, New Caledonia, Panama, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Venezuela, Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cystiscidae
- Image
- Persicula-persicula-001.jpg
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- Commons category
- Persicula
- taxon name
- Persicula
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Persicula
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Habitat
- Shell description
- Description of soft parts
- Species
- Synonyms
- References
Persicula is a taxonomic genus of minute to small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. It includes several species which are micromollusks.
This genus is placed in the family Cystiscidae. It was previously in the family Marginellidae the margin snails. Both families are within the order Neogastropoda.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Persicula” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.