''Favartia lindae'' is a
species
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of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
in the
family
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Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
Original description: "Shell small for genus, thin, delicate, elongated, fusiform; 5 varices per whorl; 6 major cords around body whorl, with 1 minor cord in-between; cords frilly, fimbriated; varices coarsely ribbed, cancellated; siphonal canal with 2 large, fimbriated cords; siphonal cords end in 2 large spines on each varix on siphonal canal; aperture large in proportion to shell size; shell color pale tan with varices being darker tan-brown; spire elevated; protoconch and early whorls brown."
Distribution
Locus typicus: "(Dredged from) 150 metres depth
50 kilometres South of Apalachicola, Florida, USA."
[Petuch, E.J. 1987-''New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas'', page 14. Publ: CERF]
References
Muricidae
Gastropods described in 1987
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