Fusiturris pluteata

Fusiturris pluteata
Drawing of a shell of Fusiturris pluteata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Clavatulidae
Genus:Fusiturris
Species: F. pluteata
Binomial name
Fusiturris pluteata
(Reeve, 1843)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pleurotoma mandarina Marrat, F.P., 1877
  • Pleurotoma pluteata Reeve, 1843
  • Surcula pluteata Reeve, 1843
  • Turris pluteata Reeve

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

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)

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)

Bibliography

  • Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp.

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