Marmorofusus leptorhynchus

Marmorofusus leptorhynchus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Fasciolariidae
Genus:	Marmorofusus
Species:	M. leptorhynchus
Binomial name
Marmorofusus leptorhynchus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1875)
Synonyms [1]
Fusinus leptorhynchus(Tapparone Canefri, 1875) Fusus leptorhynchusTapparone-Canefri, 1875 Fusus subquadratusG. B. Sowerby II, 1880

Marmorofusus leptorhynchus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies. ^[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea: Egypt, Sinai, Gulf of Aqaba, Jordan, western Saudi Arabia south to Sudan and Eritrea.

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Marmorofusus leptorhynchus (Tapperoni Canefri, 1875). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1395904 on 2020-12-03

• Tapparone-Canefri C. (1875). Studio monografico sopra i Muricidi del mar Rosso. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 7: 569-640, pl. 19.

External links

• Sowerby, G. B., II. (1842-1887). Thesaurus Conchyliorum: Or monographs of genera of shells. London, privately published
• Lyons W.G. & Snyder M.A. (2019). Reassignments to the genus Marmorofusus Snyder & Lyons, 2014 (Neogastropoda: Fasciolariidae: Fusininae) of species from the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and southwestern Australia. Zootaxa. 4714(1): 1-64