Pugnus
Encyclopedia
Pugnus is a genus
of very small sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
s in the family
Marginellidae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of very small sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
Micromollusk
A micromollusk is a descriptive term for a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also reach adult size at very small...
s in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Marginellidae
Marginellidae
Marginellidae, or the margin shells, are a taxonomic family of small, often colorful, sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda.- Taxonomy :...
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Species
Species within the genus Pugnus include:- Pugnus lachrimula (Gould, 1862)
- Pugnus maesae Roth, 1972
- Pugnus margaritellaPugnus margaritellaPugnus margaritella is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Marginellidae....
Faber, 2006 - Pugnus parvus Hedley, 1896
- Pugnus serreiPugnus serreiPugnus serrei is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Marginellidae.-Distribution:This species is distributed in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles.-References:...
(Bavay, 1911) - Pugnus tarasconii Rios, 2009