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] | |
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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
- ↑ 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
- 1 2 Fusiturricula fenimorei (Bartsch, 1934). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 October 2011.
- ↑ 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.
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
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