Favartia macgintyi, common name : McGinty's Murex, is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
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| Shell of Favartia macgintyi (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Favartia |
| Species: | F. macgintyi
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| Binomial name | |
| Favartia macgintyi (M. Smith, 1938)
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Description edit
The shell size varies between 13.4 mm and 44 mm
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Fossil range edit
The real Favartia macgintyi is a late Pliocene and early Pleistocene fossil from the Caloosahatchee formation of southern Florida. The Recent Florida species that has been designated by that name is still unnamed according to Petuch (2013: 199)
Distribution edit
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and in the Atlantic Ocean from Florida and the Bahamas to Northeastern Brazil.
References edit
- ^ a b Favartia (Murexiella) macgintyi (M. Smith, 1938). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 26 December 2010.
- Garrigues B. & Lamy D. (2019). Inventaire des Muricidae récoltés au cours de la campagne MADIBENTHOS du MNHN en Martinique (Antilles Françaises) et description de 12 nouvelles espèces des genres Dermomurex, Attilosa, Acanthotrophon, Favartia, Muricopsis et Pygmaepterys (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Xenophora Taxonomy. 23: 22–59.
External links edit
- "Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi macgintyi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 26 December 2010.
- Smith M. (1938). Further notes upon Tertiary and Recent mollusks from Florida together with descriptions of new species [concluded]. The Nautilus. 51: 88-91
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