Pusionella nifat
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Pusionella nifat ( original combination : Buccinum nifat ) is the name of a snail from the family of leg snails (genus Pusionella ), whichis widespreadin the eastern Atlantic Ocean .
features
The snail shell of Pusionella nifat reaches a length of about 3 to 5 cm in adult snails. The whorls are usually shouldered tightly at the top. The skin is whitish under a thin, slightly olive-colored, thin Periostracum whitish with several rows of square, chestnut-brown spots surrounding it. The base is tied up and has few, as if incised, stripes. This species differs from Pusionella vulpina by its central white band.
distribution and habitat
Pusionella nifat is common in the eastern Atlantic Ocean on the coast of West Africa , off Gabon , Cameroon and Angola , but also in the Mediterranean on the Algerian coast.
Development cycle
Like all leg snails, Pusionella nifat is of separate sex. The Veliger larvae swim free before they sink and metamorphose into crawling snails .
nutrition
So far there are no studies on the nutrition of Pusionella nifat . Other club snails eat polychaete (Polychaeta), they with their Radulazähnen stand and poison.
literature
- George Washington Tryon: Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species , vol. VI; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1884. P [usionella] nifat Bruguière, p. 235.
