Marmorofusus nicobaricus
(Redirected from Fusinus nicobaricus)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Fasciolariidae |
| Genus: | Marmorofusus |
| Species: | M. nicobaricus
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| Marmorofusus nicobaricus (Röding, 1798)
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Marmorofusus nicobaricus, common name : the Nicobar spindle, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.[1]
Description
[edit]The shell size varies between 75 mm and 180 mm
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Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Japan, New South Wales, Australia, New Guinea and Hawaii.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Marmorofusus nicobaricus (Röding, 1798). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828289 on 2020-12-03
- ^ "Fusinus (Fusinus) nicobaricus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- Callomon P. & Snyder M.A. (2019). The genus Fusinus in the northwestern Pacific. Special Publication of the Malacological Society of Japan. 4: 1-122 page(s): 79, figs 175-180
- Snyder M.A. & Lyons W.G. (2014). The Fusinus nicobaricus (Röding, 1798) group: Marmarofusus gen . nov., with descriptions of three new species (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae). Vita Malacologica. 12: 37-53
External links
[edit]- Röding P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp
- Baird W. (1873). Shells. Pp. 432-454, pls 36-42, In: Brenchley J.L. (ed.), Jottings during the Cruise of the H. M. S. Curaçoa among the South Sea Islands in 1865. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. xxviii + 487 pp., pls 1-50, fold outs.