Alcithoe fusus

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Alcithoe fusus
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Shell of Alcithoe fusus (neotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Volutoidea
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Alcithoe
Species:
A. fusus
Binomial name
Alcithoe fusus
Quoy and Gaimard, 1833
Synonyms
  • Alcithoe (Leporemax) fusus(Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
  • Alcithoe (Leporemax) fusus haurakiensisDell, 1956
  • Alcithoe fusus fusus(Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
  • Alcithoe fusus haurakiensisDell, 1956
  • Alcithoe fusus hedleyi(Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
  • Fulgoraria (Alcithoe) hedleyiMurdoch & Suter, 1906
  • Fulguraria (Alcithoe) hedleyiMurdoch & Suter, 1906
  • Leporemax fusus(Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
  • Leporemax fusus var. ruahiniensisR. M. Carter, 1972 (invalid: infrasubspecific name)
  • Voluta (Alcithoe) subplicataHutton, 1873
  • Voluta fususQuoy & Gaimard, 1833
  • Voluta gracilisSwainson, 1824

Alcithoe fusus is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

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Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Zealand

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