Fusiturricula enae

Fusiturricula enae
Shell of Fusiturricula enae (from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History collection) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Fusiturricula
Species:	F. enae
Binomial name
Fusiturricula enae Bartsch, 1934 [2]

Fusiturricula enae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. ^{[3] [4]}

Description

The shell has a spindle-like form, and a pale horn color. The colour between each "spiral" is pale chestnut brown. The first "spirals" are cusp-like, and the following become increasingly more rounded and elongated. ^[5] The shell grows to a length of 24 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Caribbean Sea and off Puerto Rico at depths between 500 m and 550 m.

References

1. "Record Fusiturricula enae | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution". collections.si.edu. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
2. Bartsch, P. (1934) Reports on the collections obtained by the first Johnson-Smithsonian deep-sea expedition to the Puerto Rican deep; new mollusks of the family Turritidae. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 91, 1–29, 8 pls
3. Fusiturricula enae Bartsch, 1934 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 October 2011.
4. P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)" (PDF). Journal of Molluscan Studies . 77 (3): 273–308. doi: 10.1093/mollus/eyr017 .
5. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Vol. 91. Smithsonian Institution. 1862. Retrieved 30 December 2025.

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295

External links

• "Fusiturricula enae". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.