Fulgoraria megaspira

Fulgoraria megaspira
Shell of Fulgoraria megaspira (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Volutidae
Subfamily:	Fulgorariinae
Genus:	Fulgoraria
Subgenus:
Species:	F. megaspira
Binomial name
Fulgoraria megaspira (Sowerby I, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
Fulgoraria (Fulgoraria) exoptanda Shikama, 1967 Fulgoraria (Nipponomelon) megaspira (G. B. Sowerby I, 1844)· accepted, alternate representation Fulgoraria (Nipponomelon) megaspira megaspira (G. B. Sowerby I, 1844)· accepted, alternate representation Fulgoraria (Nipponomelon) megaspira megaspira f. exoptanda Shikama, 1967 Fulgoraria (Nipponomelon) megaspira megaspira var. angulosa Shikama, 1967 Fulgoraria amabilis Shikama & Watanabe, 1970 Fulgoraria angulosa (Shikama, 1967) Fulgoraria borealis Masuda,1990 Fulgoraria elongata Shikama, 1962 Fulgoraria exoptanda Shikama, 1967 Fulgoraria salebrosa Shikama, 1967 Musashia (Nipponomelon) angulosa Shikama, 1967 Voluta megaspira G. B. Sowerby I, 1844 (original combination)

Fulgoraria megaspira is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.^[1]

Subspecies

• Fulgoraria megaspira magna Kuroda & Habe, 1950
• Fulgoraria megaspira prevostiana (Crosse, 1878)

Description[]

The length of the shell attains 103 mm.

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Distribution[]

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References[]

• Crosse, H., 1878. - Diagnoses generi novi Pneumonoponorum et Volutae novae. Journal de Conchyliologie 26: 163-166

External links[]

• Sowerby, G. B., I. (1844). Descriptions of six new species of Voluta. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1844: 149–152.
• MNHN, Paris: syntype

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