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| Drawing of a shell of Fusiturris pluteata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Fusiturridae |
| Genus: | Fusiturris |
| Species: | F. pluteata |
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| Fusiturris pluteata (Reeve, 1843) | |
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Fusiturris pluteata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fusiturridae.
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.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Madeira and West Africa (Senegal, Gabon)
References
- ^ Fusiturris pluteata (Reeve, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 August 2011.
- 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.
- George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 240; 1884 (described as Surcula pluteata)
Bibliography
- Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon . Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp.
External links
- "Fusiturris pluteata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Specimen of Fusiturris pluteata at MNHN, Paris
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