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
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	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.

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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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