''Aegeofusinus profetai'' is a

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sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

, a marine

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

in the

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Fasciolariidae Fasciolariidae is a family of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Buccinoidea. Species in Fasciolariidae are commonly known as tulip snails and spindle snails. The family Fasciolariidae most likely appeared ...

, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Aegeofusinus profetai (Nofroni, 1982). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1023299 on 2020-12-05

Description

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 14 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters and in the

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Eur ...

off Spain and Greece.

References

* Nofroni I. (1982). Fusinus profetai, new species from the Mediterranean. La Conchiglia 154-155: 8-9 page(s): p.8-9 * Buzzurro G. & Russo P. (2007). ''Fusinus del Mediterraneo.'' published by the authors, 280 p. * Russo P. (2017). New genus Aegeofusinus (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae) to include small endemic species of the Aegean sea. Bollettino Malacologico. 53: 63-68

External links

* profetai Gastropods described in 1982 {{Fasciolariidae-stub