| Fusinus Temporal range: | |
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| Shell of Fusinus inglorius | |
| Scientific classification | |
| 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] | |
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Fusinus is a genus of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails and tulip snails. [2]
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 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 [2]