''Pluscula'' is a genus of marine

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s in the superfamily

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within the clade

Cephalaspidea The order Cephalaspidea, also known as the headshield slugs and bubble snails, is a major taxon of sea slugs and bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the larger clade Euopisthobranchia.Jörger K. M., Stöger I., Kano Y., Fukuda H., ...

. It is

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, being represented by the single species, ''Pluscula cuica''.

Distribution

This species occurs off

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, Brazil."''Pluscula cuica'' Er. Marcus, 1953"
Malacolog Version 4.1.1. A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. accessed 26 December 2010.

References

Plusculidae Gastropods described in 1953 {{Heterobranchia-stub