Fenimorea ustickei
| Fenimorea ustickei | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Fenimorea |
| Species: | F. ustickei |
| Binomial name | |
| Fenimorea ustickei (Hayes, M. in Nowell-Usticke, 1959) [1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Fenimorea ustickei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 22 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Western Central Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina, in the Caribbean Sea off Panama and the Lesser Antilles.
References
- ↑ Nowell-Usticke, G.W. (1959) A Check List of the Marine Shells of St. Croix U. S. Virgin Islands with Random Annotations. G.W. Nowell-Usticke, St. Croix, 90 pp., 4 pls.
- 1 2 Fenimorea ustickei (Nowell-Usticke, 1959). 24 October 2011. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
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