Fusiturris pfefferi

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| image_caption = Original drawing of a shell of Fusiturris pfefferi

| authority = (Strebel, 1912)

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Clavatula pfefferi (Strebel, 1912)
Tomella pfefferi Strebel, 1912 (original combination)
Tomellana pfefferi (Strebel, 1912)

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Fusiturris pfefferi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fusiturridae.Bouchet, P. (2016). Fusiturris pfefferi (Strebel, 1912). In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877608 on 2016-05-31{{cite journal |author1=P. Bouchet |author2=Yu. I. Kantor |author3=A. Sysoev |author4=N. Puillandre |year=2011 |title=A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda) |journal=Journal of Molluscan Studies |volume=77 |issue=3 |pages=273–308 |doi=10.1093/mollus/eyr017|doi-access=free }}

Description

The shell grows to a length of 45 mm.

The shiny shell has a fusiform shape and resembles Tomellana hupferi (Strebel, 1912).The color of the shell is a bright brown. The protoconch consists of 1½ whorls. The 11 whorls increase downwards evenly in width.

Distribution

This species occurs in the equatorial zone of the Atlantic Ocean off Gabon.

References

[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41951#page/7/mode/1up Strebel, Hermann, Bemerkungen zu den Clavatula-Gruppen Perrona und Tomella / von Hermann Strebel; Hamburg :Kommissionsverlag von L. Gräfe & Sillem,1912]
Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp.
Nolf F. (2015). The genus Tomellana (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Clavatulidae) in West Africa: a comprehensive Survey and establishment of Fusiturris kribiensis Bozzetti, 2015 as a junior synonym. Neptunea. 13(4): 17–37

Category:Endemic fauna of Gabon

pfefferi

Category:Gastropods described in 1912