Funa tayloriana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
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| Shell of Funa tayloriana (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Funa |
| Species: | F. tayloriana
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| Binomial name | |
| Funa tayloriana (Reeve, 1846)
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Description
editThe length of the shell varies between 25 mm and 40 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Mozambique and in the Indo-West Pacific.
References
edit- ^ a b Funa tayloriana (Reeve, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
edit- Specimen at MNHN, Paris
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- "Funa tayloriana". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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