''Favartia macgintyi'', common name : McGinty's Murex, is an extinct
species 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 in the
family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
The shell size varies between 13.4 mm and 44 mm
Fossil range
The real ''Favartia macgintyi'' is a
late Pliocene and
early Pleistocene
The Early Pleistocene is an unofficial sub-epoch in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, being the earliest division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period. It is currently estimated to span the time ...
fossil from the Caloosahatchee formation of southern Florida. The Recent Florida species that has been designated by that name is still unnamed according to Petuch (2013: 199)
Distribution
This species occurs in the
Caribbean Sea, the
Gulf of Mexico and in the Atlantic Ocean from
Florida and the
Bahamas to Northeastern
Brazil.
References
* Garrigues B. & Lamy D. (2019). Inventaire des Muricidae récoltés au cours de la campagne MADIBENTHOS du MNHN en Martinique (Antilles Françaises) et description de 12 nouvelles espèces des genres Dermomurex, Attilosa, Acanthotrophon, Favartia, Muricopsis et Pygmaepterys (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Xenophora Taxonomy. 23: 22–59.
External links
*
Smith M. (1938). Further notes upon Tertiary and Recent mollusks from Florida together with descriptions of new species [concluded]. The Nautilus. 51: 88-91
Muricidae
Gastropods described in 1938
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