''Fusiturricula paulettae'' 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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Drilliidae
The Drilliidae are a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small predatory sea snails with high-spired shells. They are classified as marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
This family has no s ...
.
According to Gastropods.com it is a synonym of ''
Fusiturricula jaquensis
''Fusiturricula jaquensis'', common name the Surinam turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.Rosenberg, G. (2015). Fusiturricula jaquensis (Sowerby I, 1850). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed throug ...
''
(Sowerby, G.B. II, 1850),
but it belongs to ''Fusiturricula'' according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010
Description
The length of an adult shell attains 55 mm ; its diameter 19.9 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the
Gulf of Venezuela
The Gulf of Venezuela is a gulf of the Caribbean Sea bounded by the Venezuelan states of Zulia and Falcón and by La Guajira Department, Colombia. The western side is formed by the Guajira Peninsula. A strait connects it with Maracaibo Lake to ...
.
References
B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. ''Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy''. Palaeontos 19:1–221
External links
Daniel Princz (1978), ''Los Molluscos marinos del Golfo de Venezuela''; Contribucion # 78 p. 70
paulettae
Gastropods described in 1978
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