Knefastia tuberculifera

Knefastia tuberculifera
Shell of Knefastia tuberculifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Knefastia
Species:	K. tuberculifera
Binomial name
Knefastia tuberculifera (Broderip & Sowerby I, 1829)
Synonyms[1]
Pleurotoma tuberculifera Broderip & Sowerby I, 1829

Knefastia tuberculifera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.^[1]

Description[]

The length of the shell varies between 40 mm and 80 mm.

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Distribution[]

This marine species occurs in the Sea of Cortez, Western Mexico and down to Nicaragua

References[]

• Broderip W.J. & Sowerby I G. B. (1829). Observations on new or interesting mollusca contained, for the most part, in the Museum of the Zoological Society. Zoological Journal. 4: 359–379.

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Knefastia tuberculifera.

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
• Gastropods.com: Knefastia tuberculifera