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Pseudopusula californiana (Gray, 1827)
Pseudopusula is a genus of small sea snails, known as the false cowries or trivias.
Shell size: 10 mm with slit-like mid-ventral aperture and purple-brown in colour with strong spiral ribs. Mantle often covers much of shell.
Preys on compound tunicates.
Similar to: Pusula (Trivia) solandri (southern Calif. only) is larger (20 mm) and its shell ribs do not cross the midline while in P. californiana they do.
Synonymised names:
Cypraea californiana Gray, 1827 (original combination)
Cypraea californica Gray, 1832
Pusula californiana (Gray, 1827)
Pusula californica (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832)
Pusula californica loochooensis C. N. Cate, 1979
Pusula loochooensis C. N. Cate, 1979
Trivia californiana (Gray, 1827)
Pseudopusula is a genus of small sea snails, known as the false cowries or trivias.
Shell size: 10 mm with slit-like mid-ventral aperture and purple-brown in colour with strong spiral ribs. Mantle often covers much of shell.
Preys on compound tunicates.
Similar to: Pusula (Trivia) solandri (southern Calif. only) is larger (20 mm) and its shell ribs do not cross the midline while in P. californiana they do.
Synonymised names:
Cypraea californiana Gray, 1827 (original combination)
Cypraea californica Gray, 1832
Pusula californiana (Gray, 1827)
Pusula californica (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832)
Pusula californica loochooensis C. N. Cate, 1979
Pusula loochooensis C. N. Cate, 1979
Trivia californiana (Gray, 1827)