Favartia hilli
Favartia hilli | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Favartia |
Species: | F. hilli
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Binomial name | |
Favartia hilli (Petuch, 1987)
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Synonyms[1] | |
Murexiella hilli Petuch, 1987 |
Favartia hilli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Description
[edit]Original description: "Shell large for genus, globose, with inflated whorls and rounded shoulder; spire moderately elevated; siphonal canal long, straight; aperture large in proportion to shell size, oval; 8 recurved varices per whorl; body whorl ornamented with 5 large, fimbriated cords between varices; large, recurved, fimbriated spine on varix where intersected by cord; subsutural area flattened, producing stepped spire; spire whorls with 2 fimbriated cords; siphonal canal with 3 large, fimbriated and branching curved spines; 2 smaller spines between 3 siphonal spines; siphonal spines curved posteriorward; color varying from pink to white, salmon (holotype), lavender and dark brown; brown band around subsutural area; siphonal canal generally white."[2]
Distribution
[edit]Locus typicus: "Malmok, Aruba Isl., Netherlands Antilles."[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Favartia hilli (Petuch, 1987). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Petuch, E.J. New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, pages 98, 99. 1987. Publ: CERF
- ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 98. Publ: CERF