Funa tayloriana

Funa tayloriana
Shell of Funa tayloriana (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Funa
Species:	F. tayloriana
Binomial name
Funa tayloriana (Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms [1]
Drillia tayloriana(Reeve, 1846) Drillia topazaJ.C. Melvill & R. Standen, 1901 Inquisitor taylorianus(Reeve, 1846) Pleurotoma taylorianaReeve, 1846 Pleurotoma (Drillia) crenularis var. taylorianaReeve, 1846 Turris (Inquisitor) tayloriana(Reeve, 1846)

Funa tayloriana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 25 mm and 40 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Mozambique and in the Indo-Pacific.

References

1. Funa tayloriana (Reeve, 1846) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 4 April 2010.

• Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

External links

• Specimen at MNHN, Paris
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• "Funa tayloriana". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.