Tomopleura furcata
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| Tomopleura furcata | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Tomopleura |
| Species: | T. furcata |
| Binomial name | |
| Tomopleura furcata (Mathias Harzhauser, Han Raven, Bernard M. Landau, László Kocsis, Asiqqin Adnan, Martin Zuschin, Oleg Mandic & Antonino Briguglio; 2018) | |
Tomopleura furcata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
Description
Compared to other members of its genus, this Tomopleura species is of moderate size. The shell is a distinctively broad, fusiform (spindle) shape, characterized by a relatively short and notched siphonal canal.[2]