Fusiturricula armilda

Fusiturricula armilda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Fusiturricula
Species: F. armilda
Binomial name
Fusiturricula armilda
(Dall, 1908) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Fusiturricula dolenta Powell, 1966
  • Fusiturricula fusinella Dall, W.H., 1908
  • Turricula armilda DuShane & R. Poorman, 1967
  • Turricula (Fusiturricula) armilda Parker, 1964
  • Turris (Surcula) armilda Dall, 1908 (basionym)
  • Turris (Surcula) dolenta Dall, 1908

Fusiturricula armilda is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2][3]

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 17 mm and 60 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Eastern Pacific Ocean off the Galapagos Islands and from the Sea of Cortez, Western Mexico, to Panama.

References

  1. ^ Dall, W.H. (1908) Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer “Albatross”, during 1891, Lieut.-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N., commanding. XXXVII. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer “Albatross”, from October, 1904, to March, 1905, Lieut.-Commander L. M. Garrett, U. S. N., commanding. XIV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 43, 205–487, 22 pls.
  2. ^ a b Fusiturricula armilda (Dall, 1908).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433830 on 31 March 2010.
  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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