''Fenimorea phasma'' is a
species
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of
sea snail, a marine
gastropod mollusk
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in the
family
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Drilliidae
The Drilliidae are a taxonomic family of small predatory sea snails with high-spired shells. They are classified as marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
This family has no subfamilies. It consists of about 30 genera and approxi ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2016). Fenimorea phasma (Schwengel, 1940). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=872031 on 2016-10-02]
Description
The length of this marine shell varies between 10 mm and 28 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off
Florida
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, USA and in the Northern
Caribbean Sea
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.
References
* Schwengel, J. S. "New Mollusca from Florida." The Nautilus 54.2 (1940): 49–52.
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295
External links
*
Fallon P.J. (2016). Taxonomic review of tropical western Atlantic shallow water Drilliidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea) including descriptions of 100 new species. Zootaxa. 4090(1): 1–363*
phasma
''Phasma'' is an Australasian genus of stick insects in the family Phasmatidae, subfamily Phasmatinae and tribe Phasmatini.
Species
The Catalogue of Life
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Gastropods described in 1940
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