Pulsarella fultoni | |
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Original drawing of a shell of Pulsarella fultoni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Borsoniidae |
Genus: | Pulsarella |
Species: | P. fultoni
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Binomial name | |
Pulsarella fultoni (G.B. Sowerby III, 1888)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Pulsarella fultoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. [1]
The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 30 mm. The elongate shell has a sharp spire. It has a pale grey color with dark, longitudinal, irregularly scattered strigae, tinted on both sides in a dark color. The shell contains 11 whorls. The sutures are hardly impressed. The body whorl is slightly convex with 7 - 8 carinae. The small aperture is elongate-oval. The outer lip is deeply sinuated. The siphonal canal is very short. [2]
This marine species occurs off False Bay, South Transkei and the Agulhas Bank, . South Africa
Pulsarella fultoni | |
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Original drawing of a shell of Pulsarella fultoni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Borsoniidae |
Genus: | Pulsarella |
Species: | P. fultoni
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Binomial name | |
Pulsarella fultoni (G.B. Sowerby III, 1888)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Pulsarella fultoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. [1]
The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 30 mm. The elongate shell has a sharp spire. It has a pale grey color with dark, longitudinal, irregularly scattered strigae, tinted on both sides in a dark color. The shell contains 11 whorls. The sutures are hardly impressed. The body whorl is slightly convex with 7 - 8 carinae. The small aperture is elongate-oval. The outer lip is deeply sinuated. The siphonal canal is very short. [2]
This marine species occurs off False Bay, South Transkei and the Agulhas Bank, . South Africa