Fusiturris pluteata explained

Fusiturris pluteata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fusiturridae.^[1]

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.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Madeira and West Africa (Senegal, Gabon)

Bibliography

• Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp.

External links

• • Specimen of Fusiturris pluteata at MNHN, Paris

Notes and References

1. P. Bouchet . Yu. I. Kantor . A. Sysoev . N. Puillandre . 2011 . A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda) . . 77 . 3 . 273–308 . 10.1093/mollus/eyr017. free .
2. [George Washington Tryon]