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Peristernia marquesana

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ4888008 ↗
Source-derived summary

Peristernia marquesana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines and Papua New Guinea

References

Couto D.R., Bouchet P., Kantor Y., Simone L.R.L. & Giribet G., 2016. - A multilocus molecular phylogeny of Fasciolariidae (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea).

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The public source identifies “Peristernia marquesana” as species of mollusc. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Peristernia, marquesana and species.

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This entry incorporates text from “Peristernia marquesana” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.