OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database

Data as of: 2006-05-17

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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Volutidae 

Fusivoluta blaizei (Barnard, 1959)

Type of listing: Name in current use

Synonymy

   Fulgoraria blaizei Barnard, 1959

Distribution

About 150 km off Cape St. Blaize, near the Cape of Good Hope {POPPE1992A}

  OBIS RegionsTropical Indo-West PacificEast AfricaSouth Africa
  OBIS RegionsTemperate Indo-West PacificSouthern HemisphereSouth Africa (Cape marine Province)

Keywords

depth: continental shelf [ from 190 m ]
depth: continental shelf 
depth: continental slope [ to 225 m ]
habitat: mud bottom 
substrate: mud 

References

 Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. p.127, pl. 42, figs. 7-8 [ synonymy, distribution, habitat, description and remarks ]  General reference
 Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. p.183, pl. 78A-B [ synonymy, type information, 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 blaizei (Barnard, 1959)

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=38078) created by Shannon Reid on 2001-02-05. Record last updated by Shannon Reid on 2003-05-12.