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 Tulip Shell 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 striped color pattern and stronger raised cords on the siphonal canal, and by having sharply-angled spire whorls that bear prominent rounded knobs on the first postnuclear whorls. In this aspect, the coronated postnuclear 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
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