Ericusa sowerbyi

Ericusa sowerbyi
Ericusa sowerbyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Volutidae
Subfamily: Cymbiinae
Genus: Ericusa
Species: E. sowerbyi
Binomial name
Ericusa sowerbyi
(Kiener, 1839)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mesericusa sowerbyi perspecta Iredale, 1929
  • Mesericusa sowerbyi porcellana Jackson, 1954
  • Voluta fusiformis Swainson, 1822

Ericusa sowerbyi, common name the spindle-shaped volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

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Description

The size of the shell varies between 95 mm and 260 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off East and South Australia and off Tasmania.

References

  1. ^ a b Ericusa sowerbyi (Kiener, 1839).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=384825 on 13 November 2011.
  • Bail, P & Poppe, G. T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. Hackenheim-Conchbook, 30 pp, 5 pl.

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