Fulgoraria megaspira

Fulgoraria megaspira
	Shell of Fulgoraria megaspira (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Volutidae
Subfamily:	Fulgorariinae
Genus:	Fulgoraria
Subgenus:	Nipponomelon
Species:	F. megaspira
Binomial name
	Fulgoraria megaspira; (Sowerby I, 1844)
Synonyms
	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]

Description

The length of the shell attains 103 mm.

This marine species occurs off Japan.

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

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