Fusiturris pluteata

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Fusiturris pluteata
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Drawing of a shell of Fusiturris pluteata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Fusiturridae
Genus: Fusiturris
Species:
F. pluteata
Binomial name
Fusiturris pluteata
(Reeve, 1843)
Synonyms [1]
  • Pleurotoma mandarinaMarrat, F.P., 1877
  • Pleurotoma pluteataReeve, 1843
  • Surcula pluteataReeve, 1843
  • Turris pluteataReeve

Fusiturris pluteata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fusiturridae. [1] [2]

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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)

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References

  1. 1 2 Fusiturris pluteata (Reeve, 1843) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 August 2011.
  2. 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 .
  3. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 240; 1884 (described as Surcula pluteata)

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