Euspira fusca, common name the dark necklace shell, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[1]

Euspira fusca
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E. fusca
Binomial name
Euspira fusca
Synonyms[1]
  • Lunatia fusca (Blainville, 1825)
  • Lunatia sordida (Philippi, 1836)
  • Natica angulata Jeffreys, 1885
  • Natica brocchiana Philippi, 1851
  • Natica compacta Jeffreys, 1885
  • Natica fusca Blainville, 1825 (original combination)
  • Natica plicatula Reeve, 1855
  • Natica sordida Philippi, 1844 (invalid: junior homonym of Natica sordida Swainson, 1821)
  • Polinices (Lunatia) fusca (Blainville, 1825)
  • Polinices (Lunatia) sordida (Blainville, 1825)
  • Polinices fuscus (Blainville, 1825)

Distribution edit

This species occurs in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, European waters and the Mediterranean Sea.

References edit

  1. ^ a b Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Euspira fusca (Blainville, 1825). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140529 on 2015-06-21
  • Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp
  • Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates
  • Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • BODC (2009). Species list from the British Oceanographic Data Centre.
  • Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011) Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls.

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