Puperita pupa

Puperita pupa is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.World register of Marine Species: Puperita pupa (Linnaeus, 1767) AphiaID: 419513 

Description
Shell is globular, not presenting short spire, there are 2 to 3 turns, the outer lip is thin and sharp, columellar area is polished and has a broad wall fell. The mayor know specimens reach the 10.6 mm. Its coloration is characterized by axial bands black and white like a zebra, the opening is gray and ocher like parietal callus area and the operculum is bright yellow Aboott, R. Tucker. 1954: “American Seashells”. D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, Toronto – Canadá. 541p.Morris, Percy A. 1973: “A field guide to shells of the Atlantic and gulf coasts and the West Indies”. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston EE.UU. 330p

Distribution
Puperita pupa is a gastropod mollusk widely distributed in the area of Caribbean Sea:
Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Hispaniola,  Jamaica,  Mexico, VenezuelaBaker, H. Burrington. 1923: “The mollusca collected by the University of Michigan-Willianson expedition in Venezuela”. Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology. University of Michigan, 152:1-159. Dominica.Starmühlner F. von (1988). "Ergebnisse der Österreichisch-Französischen Hydrobiologischen Mission 1979 nach Guadeloupe, Dominica und Martinique (Kleine Antillen). Teil II: Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Süß- und Brackwassermollusken von Guadeloupe, Dominica und Martinique". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien Serie B, 90: 221-340. PDF.

References

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Category:Gastropods