Biology:Favartia lindae

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Short description: Species of gastropod


Favartia lindae
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Favartia
Species:
F. lindae
Binomial name
Favartia lindae
Petuch, 1987

Favartia lindae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Description

Original description: "Shell small for genus, thin, delicate, elongated, fusiform; 5 varices per whorl; 6 major cords around body whorl, with 1 minor cord in-between; cords frilly, fimbriated; varices coarsely ribbed, cancellated; siphonal canal with 2 large, fimbriated cords; siphonal cords end in 2 large spines on each varix on siphonal canal; aperture large in proportion to shell size; shell color pale tan with varices being darker tan-brown; spire elevated; protoconch and early whorls brown."[2]

Distribution

Locus typicus: "(Dredged from) 150 metres depth
50 kilometres South of Apalachicola, Florida, USA."[3]

References

  1. Favartia lindae Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 14. Publ: CERF
  3. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 14. Publ: CERF

Wikidata ☰ Q3171745 entry