OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
Data as of: 2006-05-17
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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Volutidae
Fusivoluta wesselsi Kilburn, 1980
Type of listing: Name in current use
Synonymy
Fusivoluta wesselsi Kilburn, 1980
Distribution
Tugela Bank, Zululand north into Mozambique
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: East Africa: Mozambique
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: East Africa: South Africa
Keywords
depth: continental shelf [ trawled at 50 m depth
]
depth: continental shelf
habitat: mud bottom [ mud and stone bottom
]
substrate: mud
References
Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. p.130, pl. 43, figs. 7-8 [ synonymy, distribution, habitat, description and remarks
] General reference
Classification
Animalia
Mollusca
Conchifera
Visceroconcha
Gastropoda
Orthogastropoda
Caenogastropoda
Sorbeoconcha
Hypsogastropoda
Neogastropoda
Volutoidea
Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815
Volutinae Swainson, 1840
Fusivoluta von Martens, 1902
Fusivoluta wesselsi Kilburn, 1980
Metadata
Taxon name record (intBiotaID=37876) created by Shannon Reid on 2001-02-04. Record last updated by Shannon Reid on 2003-05-12.