Favartia hilli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
| Favartia hilli | |
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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. hilli
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| Binomial name | |
| Favartia hilli (Petuch, 1987)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Murexiella hilli Petuch, 1987 | |
Description
editOriginal description: "Shell large for genus, globose, with inflated whorls and rounded shoulder; spire moderately elevated; siphonal canal long, straight; aperture large in proportion to shell size, oval; 8 recurved varices per whorl; body whorl ornamented with 5 large, fimbriated cords between varices; large, recurved, fimbriated spine on varix where intersected by cord; subsutural area flattened, producing stepped spire; spire whorls with 2 fimbriated cords; siphonal canal with 3 large, fimbriated and branching curved spines; 2 smaller spines between 3 siphonal spines; siphonal spines curved posteriorward; color varying from pink to white, salmon (holotype), lavender and dark brown; brown band around subsutural area; siphonal canal generally white."[2]
Distribution
editLocus typicus: "Malmok, Aruba Isl., Netherlands Antilles."[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Favartia hilli (Petuch, 1987). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Petuch, E.J. New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, pages 98, 99. 1987. Publ: CERF
- ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 98. Publ: CERF
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