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Fulgoraria megaspira

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Fulgoraria megaspira
Shell of Fulgoraria megaspira (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Fulgoraria
Subgenus: Fulgoraria (Nipponomelon)
Species:
F. megaspira
Binomial name
Fulgoraria megaspira
(Sowerby I, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
  • Fulgoraria (Fulgoraria) exoptanda Shikama, 1967
  • Fulgoraria (Nipponomelon) megaspira (G. B. Sowerby I, 1844)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Fulgoraria (Nipponomelon) megaspira megaspira (G. B. Sowerby I, 1844)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Fulgoraria (Nipponomelon) megaspira megaspira f. exoptanda Shikama, 1967
  • Fulgoraria (Nipponomelon) megaspira megaspira var. angulosa Shikama, 1967
  • Fulgoraria amabilis Shikama & Watanabe, 1970
  • Fulgoraria angulosa (Shikama, 1967)
  • Fulgoraria borealis Masuda,1990
  • Fulgoraria elongata Shikama, 1962
  • Fulgoraria exoptanda Shikama, 1967
  • Fulgoraria salebrosa Shikama, 1967
  • Musashia (Nipponomelon) angulosa Shikama, 1967
  • Voluta megaspira G. B. Sowerby I, 1844 (original combination)

Fulgoraria megaspira is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Subspecies
  • Fulgoraria megaspira magna Kuroda & Habe, 1950
  • Fulgoraria megaspira prevostiana (Crosse, 1878)

Description

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The length of the shell attains 103 mm.

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

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  • Crosse, H., 1878. - Diagnoses generi novi Pneumonoponorum et Volutae novae. Journal de Conchyliologie 26: 163-166
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