Pusia tricolor Tricolor shell

Pusia tricolor is commonly referred to as Tricolor shell. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

13541 

AphiaID:

957145 

Scientific:

Pusia tricolor 

German:

Falsche Mitraschnecke 

English:

Tricolor Shell 

Category:

Escargots de mer 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Costellariidae (Family) > Pusia (Genus) > tricolor (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Gmelin, ), 1791 

Occurrence:

Straße von Gibraltar, Tunesien, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean), Algeria, Balearic Islands, Croatia, Egypt, France, Ionian Sea (Mediterranean), Italy, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Tyrrhenian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) 

Sea depth:

3,5 - 40 Meter 

Habitats:

Seagrass meadows, Eelgrass Meadows 

Size:

0, 9 cm 

Temperature:

15,3 °F - 24,00 °F (15,3°C - 24,00°C) 

Food:

Carnivore, Predatory 

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Pusia voncoseli

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Pusia ebenus
  Falsche Mitraschnecke
• 
  Pusia tricolor
  Falsche Mitraschnecke
• 
  Pusia zebrina
  Zebra Schnecke

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2021-01-10 22:23:40 

Last edit:

2021-01-11 09:38:07 

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