| Favartia kalafuti | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Favartia |
| Species: | F. kalafuti |
| Binomial name | |
| Favartia kalafuti (Petuch, 1987) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Murexiella kalafuti Petuch, 1987 | |
Favartia kalafuti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
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."
Distribution
Locus typicus: "(Dredged from) 150 metres depth 50 kilometres South of Apalachicola, Florida, USA."
References
- ^ Favartia kalafuti (Petuch, 1987). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 14. Publ: CERF
- Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 14. Publ: CERF
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Favartia kalafuti | |
| Murexiella kalafuti | |
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