Favartia hilli

Favartia hilli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Favartia hilli
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Muricopsinae
Genus:
Favartia
Subgenus:
Murexiella
Species:
F. hilli
Binomial name
Favartia hilli
(Petuch, 1987)
Synonyms[1]

Murexiella hilli Petuch, 1987

Description

Original description: "Shell large for genus, globose, with inflated whorls and rounded shoulder; spire moderately elevated; siphonal canal long, straight; aperture large in proportion to shell size, oval; 8 recurved varices per whorl; body whorl ornamented with 5 large, fimbriated cords between varices; large, recurved, fimbriated spine on varix where intersected by cord; subsutural area flattened, producing stepped spire; spire whorls with 2 fimbriated cords; siphonal canal with 3 large, fimbriated and branching curved spines; 2 smaller spines between 3 siphonal spines; siphonal spines curved posteriorward; color varying from pink to white, salmon (holotype), lavender and dark brown; brown band around subsutural area; siphonal canal generally white."[2]

Distribution

Locus typicus: "Malmok, Aruba Isl., Netherlands Antilles."[3]

References
  1. Favartia hilli (Petuch, 1987). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. Petuch, E.J. New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, pages 98, 99. 1987. Publ: CERF
  3. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 98. Publ: CERF


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