Fenimorea ustickei

Fenimorea ustickei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Fenimorea
Species: F. ustickei
Binomial name
Fenimorea ustickei
(Hayes, M. in Nowell-Usticke, 1959) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Inodrillia ustickei Nowell-Usticke, 1959 (basionym)
  • Neodrillia antiguensis Bartsch, P., 1943
  • Neodrillia barbadensis Bartsch, P., 1943
  • Neodrillia encia Bartsch, P., 1943
  • Neodrillia jamaicensis Bartsch, P., 1943

Fenimorea ustickei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 22 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Western Central Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina, in the Caribbean Sea off Panama and the Lesser Antilles.

References

  1. ^ Nowell-Usticke, G.W. (1959) A Check List of the Marine Shells of St. Croix U. S. Virgin Islands with Random Annotations. G.W. Nowell-Usticke, St. Croix, 90 pp., 4 pls.
  2. ^ a b Fenimorea ustickei (Nowell-Usticke, 1959). 24 October 2011. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433804.