Fusiturricula bajanensis

Fusiturricula bajanensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Fusiturricula
Species: F. bajanensis
Binomial name
Fusiturricula bajanensis
Nowell-Usticke, 1969 [1]
Synonyms

Fusiturricula (Knefastia) bajanensis Nowell-Usticke, 1969

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

Contents

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 85 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Caribbean Sea off St. Croix

References

  1. ^ Nowell-Usticke, G.W. (1969) A Supplementary Listing of New Shells (Illustrated). To be Added to the Check List of the Marine Shells of St. Croix. Lane Press, Burlington, Vermont, 32 pp., 6 pls.
  2. ^ Fusiturricula bajanensis Nowell-Usticke, 1969.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432701 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.