Fusiturricula iole

Fusiturricula iole
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Fusiturricula
Species: F. iole
Binomial name
Fusiturricula iole
Woodring, 1928

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

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 20 mm and 35 mm.

Distribution

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

It has also been found as a fossil in Pliocene strata of the Bowden Formation (Jamaica); age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma [2]

References

  1. Rosenberg, G. (2015). Fusiturricula iole Woodring, 1928. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532865 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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.


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