Fusiturricula fenimorei

Fusiturricula fenimorei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Fusiturricula
Species: F. fenimorei
Binomial name
Fusiturricula fenimorei
(Bartsch, 1934) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Fusisyrinx fenimorei Bartsch, 1934
  • Fusiturricula (Fusisyrinx) fenimorei Bartsch, 1934

Fusiturricula fenimorei, common name Fenimore's turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2] [3]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 71 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Caribbean Sea and off Puerto Rico at depths between 146 m and 329 m.

References

  1. Bartsch, P. (1934) Reports on the collections obtained by the first Johnson-Smithsonian deep-sea expedition to the Puerto Rican deep; new mollusks of the family Turritidae. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 91, 1–29, 8 pls
  2. 1 2 Fusiturricula fenimorei (Bartsch, 1934).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 October 2011.
  3. P. Bouchet, Yu. I. Kantor, A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.

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