Knefastia funiculata
Shell of Knefastia funiculata
Scientific 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 funiculataKiener, 1840

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

Contents

• Description
• Distribution
• References
• External links

Description

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

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (November 2018)

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Pacific Ocean Mexico to Panama

References

• 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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Knefastia funiculata .

• 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

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