| Fusinus nicobaricus | |
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| Fusinus nicobaricus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Fasciolariidae |
| Subfamily: | Fusininae |
| Genus: | Fusinus |
| Species: | F. nicobaricus |
| Binomial name | |
| Fusinus nicobaricus (Röding, 1798) |
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Fusinus nicobaricus, common name : the Nicobar spindle, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.[1]
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The shell size varies between 75 mm and 180 mm
This species is distributed in the Bay of Bengal and in the Pacific Ocean along Japan, New South Wales, Australia, New Guinea and Hawaii.