Favartia conleyi Houart, 1999

Houart, Roland & Héros, Virginie, 2008, Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Fiji and Tonga, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196, pp. 437-480 : 456

Favartia conleyi Houart, 1999

Favartia conleyi Houart, 1999 [March]: 14, figs 1, 4-5.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Fiji. MUSORSTOM 10: stn CP 1363, 178°06’E, 37-41 m, 1 dd juv (damaged); stn DW 15, 18°23’S, 18°12’S, 178°33’E, 144-150 m, 1 dd (damaged) . — SUVA 4: stn 178°11’E, 32-34 m, 1 dd; stn DW 24, 18°28’S, 177°57’E, 40 m, DW 08, 18°22’S, 178°02’E, 28-30 m, 1 dd; stn DW 09, 18°21’S, 1 dd.

DISTRIBUTION. — Guam, the Coral Sea , New Caledonia, Tahiti (Society Islands) and now Fiji (new record), shells only in 30-144 m.

REMARKS. —The axial sculpture of the teleoconch whorls consists of high, strong, frondose varices, each with short, blunt, occasionally bifurcated spines. The first whorl has 6 varices, the second and third 5 or 6, and the fourth, penultimate and last whorls have 5 varices. The spiral sculpture consists of high, strong, squamous, striate cords: 2 cords (P1 & P2) from the first to the penultimate whorl; the last whorl bears 5 cords (P1-P5). The space between the second and third cords is approximately twice that between the other cords. There are 3-5 narrow threads between the abapical cord and the spine of the siphonal canal.