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Deep-Sea name details
original description
(of Fusus amiantus Dall, 1889) Dall, W. H. (1889). Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College.</em> 18: 1-492, pls. 10-40., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25505 page(s): 169; pl. 15 fig. 11 [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source
Bouchet, P. & Warén, A. (1985). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). <em>Bollettino Malacologico.</em> supplement 1: 121-296., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/140763 page(s): 161-163 [details]
additional source
Gofas S. (2000). Four species of the family Fasciolariidae (Gastropoda) from the North Atlantic seamounts. <i>Journal of Conchology 37(1)</i>: 7-16 [details] Available for editors
additional source
Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 <i>in:</i> Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] Available for editors
new combination reference
Fraussen K., Kantor Y. & Hadorn R. 2007. <i>Amiantofusus</i> gen. nov. for <i>Fusus amiantus</i> Dall, 1889 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae) with description of a new and extensive Indo-West Pacific radiation. <i>Novapex</i> 8 (3-4): 79-101., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42353453 [details]
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Biology Type of larval development: planktotrophic, inferred from multispiral protoconch. [details]
Diagnosis Shell up to 25 mm high, elongate fusiform, quite solid. Protoconch of little more than three whorls, distinctly cyrtoconoid, with the two first whorls smooth except for a double suprasutural cord, the last whorl bearing in addition numerous curved axial riblets. Teleoconch of 6-7 whorls. Spire whorls moderately convex, with ca. 10 strong, very slightly prosocline axial folds overrun by spiral cords; three major spiral cords on teleoconch spire whorls, forming acute knobs at intersection with axial folds, the adapical cord rather distant fron the suture and making the profile of whorls somewhat angular. Body whorl with a rather short, oblique, strongly tapering siphonal canal, covered with very attenuated spiral cords. Aperture oval, merging abapically into the siphonal canal. Outer lip somewhat thickened internally and bevelled to a sharp edge. Colour of protoconch dark brown; teleoconch pure white.
This species differs from Fusinus bocagei (Fischer, 1882) by the subsutural slope, less definite cords forming sharper knobs over the folds, the markedly smaller, more oblique and more tapering siphonal canal, by the more contrasted dark protoconch over the white shell, and by the more definite and duplicate suprasutural thread on the protoconch.
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Distribution Western Atlantic, off Cuba; Central North Atlantic, off the Azores, 1250-1600 m; Meteor, Irving and Plato seamounts, moderately common in 480-1575 m. [details]
Type locality off Havana, Cuba, 1480 m [details]From other sources
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
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