Pusia pulchella Beautiful Mitre, Beautiful Miter, Pretty Mitre

Pusia pulchella is commonly referred to as Beautiful Mitre, Beautiful Miter, Pretty Mitre. 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:

16263 

AphiaID:

1821133 

Scientific:

Pusia pulchella 

German:

Hübsche Mitra 

English:

Beautiful Mitre, Beautiful Miter, Pretty Mitre 

Category:

Slakken 

Family tree:

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

Initial determination:

(Reeve, ), 1844 

Occurrence:

Barbados, Bonaire, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Jamaica, the Caribbean, USA 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

21 - 94 Meter 

Habitats:

Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

2,1 cm 

Weight:

2 g 

Temperature:

23,2 °F - 27,6 °F (23,2°C - 27,6°C) 

Food:

Carnivore, Clams, No reliable information available, Snails, Worms 

Difficulty:

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

Offspring:

None 

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 cubana
  Kubanische Pusia
• 
  Pusia histrio
  Harlekin Mitra
• 
  Pusia pulchella
  Hübsche Mitra
• 
  Pusia zebrina
  Zebra Schnecke

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2024-02-19 13:11:44 

Last edit:

2026-01-14 14:01:33 

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