Fusiturricula humerosa

Fusiturricula humerosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Fusiturricula
Species: F. humerosa
Binomial name
Fusiturricula humerosa
(Gabb, 1873)

Fusiturricula humerosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 19 mm and 47 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Caribbean Sea off Jamaica and Venezuela

It has also been found as a fossil in Miocene to Pliocene strata of the Gurabo Formation (Dominican Republic); age range: 7.246 to 3.6 Ma [2]

References

  1. Rosenberg, G. (2015). Fusiturricula humerosa (Gabb, 1873). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532864 on 2016-10-05}
  2. A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.


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