Turricula faurei

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

Turricula faurei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Clavatulidae
Genus:	Turricula
Species:	T. faurei
Binomial name
*Turricula faurei* (Barnard, 1958)
Synonyms[1]
Surcula faurei Barnard, 1958

Description

The length of the shell attains 21 mm, its diameter 9.3 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Agulhas Bank, South Africa.

References

Turricula faurei (Barnard, 1958). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
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.

Barnard K.H. (1958), Contribution to the knowledge of South African marine Mollusca. Part 1. Gastropoda; Prosobranchiata: Toxoglossa; Annals of The South African Museum v. 44 p. 73–163

External links

Indo-Pacific Mollusca; Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Delaware Museum of Natural History v. 2 no. 9–10 (1968–1969)

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