Fusiturris pluteata
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| Drawing of Fusiturris pluteata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Clavatulidae |
| Genus: | Fusiturris |
| Species: | F. pluteata |
| Binomial name | |
| Fusiturris pluteata (Reeve, 1843) | |
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Fusiturris pluteata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1] [2]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 25 mm and 32 mm. The shell is narrowly fusiform, with an elevated, acuminated spire and a long, narrow, twisted siphonal canal. The anal sinus is rather shallow and wide. The whorls show a shelf below the sutures, and a central revolving carina of small nodules. The color of the shell is horn-color, the nodules are white. [3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Madeira and West Africa (Senegal, Gabon)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fusiturris pluteata (Reeve, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 August 2011.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 240; 1884 (described as Surcula pluteata)
Bibliography
- Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp.
External links
- Fusiturris pluteata at Gastropods.com