''Marmorofusus nicobaricus'', common name : the Nicobar spindle, is a

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Fasciolariidae The Fasciolariidae, common name the "tulip snails and spindle snails", are a family (biology), family of small to large sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Buccinoidea. The family Fasciolariidae probably appe ...

, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.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

Description

The shell size varies between 75 mm and 180 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off

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References

* 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

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.
{{Taxonbar, from1=Q61694904, from2=Q5510177 nicobaricus Gastropods described in 1798