Fenimorea sunderlandi

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Fenimorea sunderlandi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Fenimorea
Species: F. sunderlandi
Binomial name
Fenimorea sunderlandi
(Petuch, 1987) [1]
Synonyms[2]

Splendrillia sunderlandi Petuch, 1987 (basionym)

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

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 20 mm and 40 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Gulf of Mexico; in the Atlantic Ocean between Florida and Brazil at depths between 61 m and 150 m.

References

  1. Petuch, E.J. (1987) New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas. The Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia, 154 pp.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Fenimorea sunderlandi (Petuch, 1987).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 October 2011.
  • Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

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