Pusula radians (Lamarck, 1810)

• Radiant button shell / Radiating trivia

Scientific classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Triviidae
Genus: Pusula
Species: Pusula radians

18mm

Coiba Island, Panama

From my collection

Acquired as Pusula solandri, it is actually P. radians.
Similar, although looking at them side by side the differences are remarkable.

Please, refer to plates 5 and 7 from FEHSE & GREGO: Revision of the genus Pusula (published in 2014)

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