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- Title
A New Deep Water Fasciolaria (Fasciolariidae: Fasciolariinae) TulipShell from off the Dry Tortugas, Western Florida Keys, Florida.
- Authors
Petuch, Edward J.; Berschauer, David P.
- Abstract
A new species of True Tulip Shell in the genus Fasciolaria has been discovered in lobster traps set in deep water off the Dry Tortugas, western Florida Keys. This new TulipShell is closest to the widespread Carolinian Province-Caribbean Province F. tulipa (Linnaeus, 1758) but differs in having a proportionally shorter siphonal canal, in having a conspicuous stripedcolorpattern and stronger raised cords on the siphonal canal, and by having sharply-angled spire whorls that bear prominent rounded knobs on the first post nuclear whorls. In this aspect, the coronated post nuclear whorls of the new species, here named F. bittneri, resemble those seen on the heavily-ornamented Calabrian Pleistocene species, F. okeechobeensis Tucker & Wilson, 1932, from the Bermont Formation of southern Florida.
- Subjects
FLORIDA Keys (Fla.); FLORIDA; TULIPS; PLEISTOCENE Epoch; LOBSTERS
- Publication
Festivus, 2023, Vol 55, Issue 2, p92
- ISSN
0738-9388
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.54173/F55292