Heilprinia timessa

Heilprinia timessa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Fasciolariidae
Genus:	Heilprinia
Species:	H. timessa
Binomial name
Heilprinia timessa (Dall, 1889)
Synonyms [1]
Fusinus timessus(Dall, 1889) Fusus timessusDall, 1889 Heilprinia lindaePetuch, 1987

Heilprinia timessa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Florida Keys.

References

1. WoRMS : Fusinus timessus; accessed : 26 August 2010
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Heilprinia timessa (Dall, 1889). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=448405 on 2020-12-06

• Vermeij G.J. & Snyder M.A. (2018). Proposed genus-level classification of large species of Fusininae (Gastropoda, Fasciolariidae). Basteria. 82(4-6): 57-82.

External links

• Dall W.H. 1889. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, 18: 1-492, pls. 10-40.