Fusiaphera macrospira

Fusiaphera macrospira, common name the big-spired nutmeg, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

Fusiaphera macrospira
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Cancellarioidea
Family:
Cancellariidae
Genus:
Fusiaphera
Species:
F. macrospira
Binomial name
Fusiaphera macrospira
(A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cancellaria macrospira Adams & Reeve, 1850
  • Cancellaria azumai Habe, 1961
  • Cancellaria exquisita Preston, 1905
  • Cancellaria luscinia Melvill & Standen, 1903
  • Cancellaria macrospira A. Adams & Reeve, 1850
  • Cancellaria macrospiratoides Habe, 1961
  • Cancellaria pallida E.A. Smith, 1899
  • Cancellaria producta Sowerby, 1903
  • Cancellaria tosaensis Habe, 1961
  • Cancellaria wilmeri Sowerby, 1881
  • Fusiaphera azumai (Habe, 1961)
  • Fusiaphera dampierensis Garrard, 1975
  • Fusiaphera eva Petit, 1980
  • Fusiaphera exquisita (Preston, 1905)
  • Fusiaphera macrospiratoides (Habe, 1961)
  • Fusiaphera pallida (E.A. Smith, 1899)
  • Fusiaphera tosaensis (Habe, 1961)

Description

The shell size varies between 14 mm and 30 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Eastern Indian Ocean and in the Western Pacific Ocean.

References
  1. Fusiaphera macrospira (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 October 2010.
  • "Fusiaphera macrospira". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
  • Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428 pp.
  • Bouchet P. & Petit R. E. (2008). "New species and new records of southwest Pacific Cancellariidae". The Nautilus 122(1): 1–18.
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