''Marmorofusus nicobaricus'', common name : the Nicobar spindle, is a

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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. Marmorofusus nicobaricus (Röding, 1798). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828289 on 2020-12-03

Description

The shell size varies between 75 mm and 180 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off

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References

* Callomon P. & Snyder M.A. (2019). The genus Fusinus in the northwestern Pacific. Special Publication of the Malacological Society of Japan. 4: 1-122 page(s): 79, figs 175-180 * Snyder M.A. & Lyons W.G. (2014). The Fusinus nicobaricus (Röding, 1798) group: Marmarofusus gen . nov., with descriptions of three new species (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae). Vita Malacologica. 12: 37-53

External links

Röding P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp

Baird W. (1873). Shells. Pp. 432-454, pls 36-42, In: Brenchley J.L. (ed.), Jottings during the Cruise of the H. M. S. Curaçoa among the South Sea Islands in 1865. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. xxviii + 487 pp., pls 1-50, fold outs.
{{Taxonbar, from1=Q61694904, from2=Q5510177 nicobaricus Gastropods described in 1798