Favartia Taylorae
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''Favartia (Murexiella) taylorae taylorae'' is a
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of
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, a marine
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in the
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Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.


Description

Original description: "Shell small for genus, with oval body, elevated spire and long siphonal canal; 7 varices per whorl; varices with 6 large, strongly recurved spines; intervarical areas with 6 large fimbriated cords; siphonal canal with 2 large recurved spines; last spines of siphonal canal greatly recurved, almost touching varical spines; shoulder sharply angled; spire whorls tabulate; shell color rosy-tan with dark rose spots in pits at the base of each varix; siphonal canal pinkish-rose; interior of aperture pinkish-rose."
The shell grows to a length of 16 mm


Distribution

Locus typicus: "(Trawled from) 200 metres depth off Cedar Key, Florida, USA."Petuch, E.J. 1987-''New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas'', page 26. Publ: CERF
This species is distributed in the
Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico ( es, Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin, ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of ...
along Florida.


References

* Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. ''Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico'', pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas Gastropods described in 1987 Favartia {{Muricopsinae-stub