Fusiaphera macrospira

Fusiaphera macrospira, common name the big-spired nutmeg, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

Fusiaphera macrospira
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cancellarioidea
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Fusiaphera
Species:	F. macrospira
Binomial name
Fusiaphera macrospira (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Synonyms
Cancellaria macrospira Adams & Reeve, 1850 Cancellaria azumai Habe, 1961 Cancellaria exquisita Preston, 1905 Cancellaria luscinia Melvill & Standen, 1903 Cancellaria macrospira A. Adams & Reeve, 1850 Cancellaria macrospiratoides Habe, 1961 Cancellaria pallida E.A. Smith, 1899 Cancellaria producta Sowerby, 1903 Cancellaria tosaensis Habe, 1961 Cancellaria wilmeri Sowerby, 1881 Fusiaphera azumai (Habe, 1961) Fusiaphera dampierensis Garrard, 1975 Fusiaphera eva Petit, 1980 Fusiaphera exquisita (Preston, 1905) Fusiaphera macrospiratoides (Habe, 1961) Fusiaphera pallida (E.A. Smith, 1899) Fusiaphera tosaensis (Habe, 1961)

Description

The shell size varies between 14 mm and 30 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Eastern Indian Ocean and in the Western Pacific Ocean.

External links

• "Fusiaphera macrospira". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
• Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428 pp.
• Bouchet P. & Petit R. E. (2008). "New species and new records of southwest Pacific Cancellariidae". The Nautilus 122(1): 1–18.