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

Knefastia funiculata
Shell of Knefastia funiculata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Knefastia
Species:
K. funiculata
Binomial name
Knefastia funiculata
(Kiener, 1840)
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma funiculata Kiener, 1840

Description edit

The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 60 mm.

Distribution edit

This marine species occurs off Pacific Mexico to Panama

References edit

  1. ^ a b Knefastia funiculata (Kiener, 1840). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.
  • Kiener, L. C. "Genre Pleurotome (Pleurotoma Lam.)." Genre (1839): 1.
  • B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221

External links edit

  • MNHN, Paris : syntype
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • Gastropods.com: Knefastia funiculata