Favartia kalafuti

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

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

Murexiella kalafuti Petuch, 1987

Description

Original description: "Shell small for genus, fusiform, with elevated spire; 6 varices per whorl; shoulder sharp-angled; body whorl with 5 large cords; cords end in thick, blunt spines at intersections with varix; cords minutely fimbriated; varices heavily fimbriated; shell grayish-white with 2 wide, dark brown bands, one around mid-body and one around siphonal canal; suture marked with row of intermittent dark brown patches; siphonal canal with 2 large cords, producing 2 large spines at intersection with varix; aperture ovate, large in proportion to shell size; dark mid-body band showing through in aperture."[2]

Distribution

Locus typicus: "(Dredged from) 150 metres depth 50 kilometres South of Apalachicola, Florida, USA."[3]

References
  1. Favartia kalafuti (Petuch, 1987). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 14. Publ: CERF
  3. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 14. Publ: CERF


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