Austrofusus glans

Austrofusus glans
A dorsal view of a shell of Austrofusus glans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Prosiphonidae
Genus:	Austrofusus
Species:	A. glans
Binomial name
Austrofusus glans (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms
Aethocola glans(Röding, 1798) Austrofusus (Austrofusus) glans(Röding, 1798)· accepted, alternate representation Austrofusus glans agrestiorFinlay, 1927 Austrofusus glans tragulatusIredale, 1937 Buccinum nodosum Martyn, 1784 Buccinum tritonLesson, 1841 Drupa glansRöding, 1798 (original combination) Fusus nodosusGray, 1843 Fusus raphanusLamarck, 1816 Siphonalia nodosa(Martyn, 1784)

Austrofusus glans is a species of medium-sized sea snail or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Prosiphonidae, ^[1] formerly of the family Buccinidae. ^{[2] [3]}

Description

Austrofusus glans is a medium-sized species of buccinid whelk. ^{[2] [3]} The species occurs in shallow, subtidal depths down to at least 600 metres on sandy or soft-bottom sediments. ^[4]

Distribution

The species is endemic to New Zealand. ^[3]

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. "Austrofusus glans (Röding, 1798)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
2. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1
3. Vaux, Felix; Hills, Simon F.K.; Marshall, Bruce A.; Trewick, Steven A.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2017). "A phylogeny of Southern Hemisphere whelks (Gastropoda: Buccinulidae) and concordance with the fossil record". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 114 (2017): 367–381. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.018. PMID   28669812.
4. Willan, R.C., de C. Cook, S., Spencer, H.G., Creese, R.G., O’Shea, S., Jackson, G.D. Phylum Mollusca. In: de C. Cook, S.C. (eds.), New Zealand Coastal Marine Invertebrates 1, 395 – 396. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand ISBN   978-1877257-60-5