Fusiturris pluteata

Fusiturris pluteata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fusiturridae.^[1][2]

Fusiturris pluteata
Drawing of a shell of Fusiturris pluteata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Fusiturridae
Genus:	Fusiturris
Species:	F. pluteata
Binomial name
Fusiturris pluteata (Reeve, 1843)
Synonyms[1]
Pleurotoma mandarina Marrat, F.P., 1877 Pleurotoma pluteata Reeve, 1843 Surcula pluteata Reeve, 1843 Turris pluteata Reeve

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 25 mm and 32 mm. The shell is narrowly fusiform, with an elevated, acuminated spire and a long, narrow, twisted siphonal canal. The anal sinus is rather shallow and wide. The whorls show a shelf below the sutures, and a central revolving carina of small nodules. The color of the shell is horn-color, the nodules are white.^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Madeira and West Africa (Senegal, Gabon)