Species of sea snail
Needle pyram
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A shell of Longchaeus acus from Samoa
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Mollusca
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Class:
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Gastropoda
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Family:
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Pyramidellidae
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Genus:
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Longchaeus
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Species:
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L. acus
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Binomial name
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Longchaeus acus
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Synonyms[1]
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- Lonchaeus acus [sic]Gmelin, 1791
- Longchaeus punctatus (Férussac, 1821)
- Pyramidella (Longchaeus) acus (Gmelin, J.F., 1791)
- Pyramidella acus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Pyramidella maculosa Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822
- Pyramidella musculosa Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1816
- Pyramidella punctata Schubert, H.G. & A.J. Wagner, 1829 (invalid: homonym and synonym of Pyramidella punctata Férussac, 1821)
- Pyramidella punctata Férussac, 1821
- Voluta acus Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)
- Voluta guttata Link, H.F., 1807
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Longchaeus acus, common name the needle pyram, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1][2][3]