Pulsarella fultoni

Pulsarella fultoni
Original drawing of a shell of Pulsarella fultoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Pulsarella
Species: P. fultoni
Binomial name
Pulsarella fultoni
(G.B. Sowerby III, 1888)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia fultoni (G.B. Sowerby III, 1888)
  • Pleurotoma fultoni G.B. Sowerby III, 1888 (original combination)
  • Tomopleura fultoni (G.B. Sowerby III, 1888)
  • Tomopleura vertebrata (non E. A. Smith, 1875); Powell, 1966

Pulsarella fultoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 30 mm. The elongate shell has a sharp spire.It has a pale grey color with dark, longitudinal , irregularly scattered strigae, tinted on both sides in a dark color. The shell contains 11 whorls. The sutures are hardly impressed. The body whorl is slightly convex with 7 - 8 carinae. The small aperture is elongate-oval. The outer lip is deeply sinuated. The siphonal canal is very short. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off False Bay, South Transkei and the Agulhas Bank, . South Africa

References

  1. 1 2 Sartori, André F. (2015). Pulsarella fultoni. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434828 on 2016-03-22
  2. G.B. Sowerby III, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1888, p. 210, pi. xi. f. 17

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