Pseudoliotia pulchella

Pseudoliotia pulchella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Tornidae
Genus: Pseudoliotia
Species:
P. pulchella
Binomial name
Pseudoliotia pulchella
(Dunker, 1860)
Synonyms
  • Cyclostrema bushae Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1907
  • Cyclostrema bushi Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1907
  • Cyclostrema pulchellum Dunker, 1860

Pseudoliotia pulchella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.[1] Its original name, Cyclostrema bushae, was given for the American malacologist Katherine J. Bush (1855–1937) who had made a revision of Cyclostrema in 1897 [2] It was reassigned to Pseudoliotia in 2018.[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Madagascar.

References

  1. ^ "Pseudoliotia pulchella". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  2. ^ (Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Science 10: 97–144).
  3. ^ Rubio F. & Rolán E. (2018). The genus Pseudoliotia Tate, 1898 (Gastropoda, Vitrinellidae) in the Tropical Indo-Pacific. Iberus. suppl. 7: p. 20.


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