Deep-Sea taxon details
Orania fusulus (Brocchi, 1814)
140411 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140411)
accepted
Species
marine
recent + fossil
(of ) Brocchi, G. B. (1814). <i>Conchiologia fossile subapennina con osservazioni geologiche sugli Apennini e sul suolo adiacente. Tomo primo</i>. pp. 1-56, I-LXXV, 1-240. Milano, Stamperia Reale., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12001697
page(s): 409-410; pl. 8 fig. 9 [details]
page(s): 409-410; pl. 8 fig. 9 [details]
Note Valle di Andona, northern Italy (Pliocene fossil)
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Type locality Valle di Andona, northern Italy (Pliocene fossil) [details]
Distribution Eastern Atlantic, from Bay of Biscay to Angola and in the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores; Mediterranean, usually in...
Distribution Eastern Atlantic, from Bay of Biscay to Angola and in the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores; Mediterranean, usually in 50-120 m depth, also on Gorringe, Josephine, Seine and Ampère seamounts, moderately common in 96-310 m [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Orania fusulus (Brocchi, 1814). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140411 on 2024-04-29
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Orania fusulus (Brocchi, 1814). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140411 on 2024-04-29
original description
(of ) Brocchi, G. B. (1814). <i>Conchiologia fossile subapennina con osservazioni geologiche sugli Apennini e sul suolo adiacente. Tomo primo</i>. pp. 1-56, I-LXXV, 1-240. Milano, Stamperia Reale., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12001697
page(s): 409-410; pl. 8 fig. 9 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System. [details]
basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]
additional source Sabelli B. & Tommasini S. (1983). Contributo alla conoscenza sistematica di <i>"Murex" fusulus</i> Brocchi, 1814. <i>Bollettino Malacologico 19 (1-4)</i>: 1-12 [details]
page(s): 409-410; pl. 8 fig. 9 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System. [details]
basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]
additional source Sabelli B. & Tommasini S. (1983). Contributo alla conoscenza sistematica di <i>"Murex" fusulus</i> Brocchi, 1814. <i>Bollettino Malacologico 19 (1-4)</i>: 1-12 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Biology Type of larval development: planktotrophic, inferred from multispiral protoconch. [details]Diagnosis Shell up to 25 mm high, fusiform, with rather high spire and moderately convex whorls, the later ones shouldered. Protoconch of 3-4 whorls, nearly smooth with a suprasutural cord and minute granules over the surface, demarcated from teleoconch by a marked “sinusigera” rim. Teleoconch sculpture of 3-4 first-order spiral cords and numerous intervening smaller cords, all somewhat scaly, and of strong axial folds. Aperture strongly thickened externally and internally, the inner rim with 6-7 denticles elongated towards inside the shell. Colour dirty white.
This species resembles superficially the littoral species Muricopsis cristata (Brocchi, 1814) but differs in lacking the purplish or pinkish hue usually present in the latter, in having a multispiral protoconch, and in having numerous, less elevated spirals, which do not form spines over the folds.
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Distribution Eastern Atlantic, from Bay of Biscay to Angola and in the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores; Mediterranean, usually in 50-120 m depth, also on Gorringe, Josephine, Seine and Ampère seamounts, moderately common in 96-310 m [details]
Type locality Valle di Andona, northern Italy (Pliocene fossil) [details]
