OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database

Data as of: 2006-05-17

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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Volutidae 

Fusivoluta sculpturata (Tomlin, 1945)

Type of listing: Name in current use

Synonymy

   Glypteuthria sculpturata Tomlin, 1945

Distribution

Off Cape Point, South Africa

  OBIS Regions: Temperate Indo-West Pacific: Southern Hemisphere: South Africa (Cape marine Province)

Keywords

depth: continental slope [ dredged 570-720 m deep {POPPE1992A} ]
depth: continental slope 

References

 Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. p.130, pl. 43, figs. 5-6 [ synonymy, distribution, habitat, description and remarks ]  General reference
 Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. p.185, text-fig. [ synonymy, type information, distribution, habitat, description, animal and radula 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 sculpturata (Tomlin, 1945)

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=38074) created by Shannon Reid on 2001-02-05. Record last updated by Shannon Reid on 2003-05-12.