Fusiaphera macrospira
Fusiaphera macrospira | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Cancellarioidea |
Family: | Cancellariidae |
Genus: | Fusiaphera |
Species: | F. macrospira |
Binomial name | |
Fusiaphera macrospira (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Fusiaphera macrospira, common name the big-spired nutmeg, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
Description
The shell size varies between 14 mm and 30 mm.
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Eastern Indian Ocean and in the Western Pacific Ocean.
References
- 1 2 Fusiaphera macrospira (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 October 2010.
External links
- Gastropods.com : Fusiaphera macrospira: accessed : 30 October 2010
- Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428 pp.
- Bouchet P. & Petit R. E. (2008). "New species and new records of southwest Pacific Cancellariidae". The Nautilus 122(1): 1-18.
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