Fusinus

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Fusinus
Temporal range: Cretaceous – Recent
Fusinus inglorius 002.jpg
Shell of Fusinus inglorius
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Fasciolariidae
Subfamily: Fusininae
Genus: Fusinus
Rafinesque, 1815 [1]
Type species
Murex colus
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms [2]
  • BarbarofususGrabau & Shimer, 1909
  • ExilifususGabb, 1876 †
  • Fusinus (Barbarofusus)Grabau & Shimer, 1909
  • Fusinus (Sinistralia)H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
  • Fusus Bruguière, 1789 (invalid: junior homonym of Fusus Helbling, 1779. Placed by the ICZN on the Official Index by Opinion 1765, 1994, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 51(2): 159. )
  • GracilipurpuraJousseaume, 1881 †
  • HeilpriniaGrabau, 1904
  • PropefususIredale, 1924
  • SinistraliaH. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
  • Tritonium (Fusus)Bruguière, 1789
Fossil shell of Fusinus longiroster from Pliocene of Italy Fascicolariidae - Fusinus longiroster.jpg
Fossil shell of Fusinus longiroster from Pliocene of Italy
Fusinus sp. from the Pliocene of Cyprus. Fusinus Cyprus Pliocene.jpg
Fusinus sp. from the Pliocene of Cyprus.

Fusinus is a genus of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails and tulip snails. [3]

Contents

Fossil records

This genus is known in the fossil records from the Cretaceous to the Quaternary (age range: from 94.3 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata all over the world. [4]

Species

Species in the genus Fusinus include: [5] [6]

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Fusinus [7]

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. ↑ Rafinesque C. S. (1815). Analyse: 145.
  2. ↑ WoRMS : Fusinus; accessed : 1 September 2010
  3. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Fusinus Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138002 on 27 November 2020
  4. ↑ "Fossilworks". Archived from the original on 13 December 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  5. ↑ "Fusinus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  6. ↑ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1
  7. ↑ WoRMS : Fusinus
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