Favartia taylorae | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Favartia |
Species: | F. taylorae
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Binomial name | |
Favartia taylorae Petuch, 1987
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Synonyms [1] | |
Murexiella taylorae Petuch, 1987 |
Favartia (Murexiella) taylorae taylorae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
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."
[2]
The shell grows to a length of 16 mm
Locus typicus: "(Trawled from) 200 metres depth
off Cedar Key, Florida, USA."
[3]
This species is distributed in the Gulf of Mexico along Florida.
Favartia taylorae | |
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Scientific classification
![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Favartia |
Species: | F. taylorae
|
Binomial name | |
Favartia taylorae Petuch, 1987
| |
Synonyms [1] | |
Murexiella taylorae Petuch, 1987 |
Favartia (Murexiella) taylorae taylorae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
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."
[2]
The shell grows to a length of 16 mm
Locus typicus: "(Trawled from) 200 metres depth
off Cedar Key, Florida, USA."
[3]
This species is distributed in the Gulf of Mexico along Florida.