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Species of gastropod
Marmorofusus nicobaricus
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Subclass:
Caenogastropoda
Order:
Neogastropoda
Family:
Fasciolariidae
Genus:
Marmorofusus
Species:
M. nicobaricus
Binomial name
Marmorofusus nicobaricus (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms
[1]
Fusinus nicobaricus (Röding, 1798)
Fusus (Colus) brenchleyi Baird, 1873
Fusus brenchleyi Baird, 1873
Fusus nicobaricus (Röding, 1798)
Marmorofusus brenchleyi (Baird, 1873)
Murex marmorata Röding, P.F., 1798
Syrinx marmorata Röding, 1798
Syrinx nicobaricus Röding, 1798
Marmorofusus nicobaricus , common name : the Nicobar spindle , is a
species of
sea snail , a marine
gastropod
mollusc in the
family
Fasciolariidae , the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.
[1]
Description
The shell size varies between 75 mm and 180 mm
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Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off
Japan ,
New South Wales , Australia,
New Guinea and
Hawaii .
[2]
References
Callomon P. & Snyder M.A. (2019). The genus Fusinus in the northwestern Pacific. Special Publication of the Malacological Society of Japan. 4: 1-122 page(s): 79, figs 175-180
Snyder M.A. & Lyons W.G. (2014). The Fusinus nicobaricus (Röding, 1798) group: Marmarofusus gen . nov., with descriptions of three new species (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae). Vita Malacologica. 12: 37-53
External links
Röding P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp
Baird W. (1873). Shells. Pp. 432-454, pls 36-42, In: Brenchley J.L. (ed.), Jottings during the Cruise of the H. M. S. Curaçoa among the South Sea Islands in 1865. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. xxviii + 487 pp., pls 1-50, fold outs.
Marmorofusus nicobaricus Fusinus nicobaricus