Fusiturricula maesae

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Fusiturricula maesae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Fusiturricula
Species: F. maesae
Binomial name
Fusiturricula maesae
Rios, 1985[1]

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

The specific name maesae is named in honor of American malacologist Virginia Orr Maes.[4]

Distribution

The type locality is in the demersal zone off Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo, Brazil.[4] at a depth of 91 m.

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 54 mm.[5]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 91 m.[5] Maximum recorded depth is 91 m.[5]

References

  1. Rios E. C. (1985). Seashells of Brazil. Rio Grande do Sul, 329 pp., 102 plates. Page 133, plate 46, figure 604.
  2. Fusiturricula maesae Rios, 1985.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 October 2011.
  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. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Robertson R. (1987). "Virginia Orr Maes (1920-1986): Biography and <Malacological Bibliography". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 139: 527-532.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295

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