Austrofusus
Genus of gastropods
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Austrofusus is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or whelks, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Prosiphonidae, the true whelks.
| Austrofusus Temporal range: Middle Paleocene to Recent, | |
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| A dorsal view of a shell of Austrofusus glans | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Prosiphonidae |
| Genus: | Austrofusus Kobelt, 1879 |
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Description
Two extant species Austrofusus glans and A. chathamensis are endemic to New Zealand waters,[1][2] but most species are extinct and there is an abundant fossil record within the country.[3]
Evolution
Austrofusus glans is not closely related to other extant New Zealand buccinid whelks, and is instead related to the Northern Hemisphere genus Colus.[4]
Species
Species within the genus Austrofusus include:
- † Austrofusus acuticostatus (Suter, 1917)[3]
- † Austrofusus affiliatus (Finlay, 1926)[3]
- † Austrofusus allani (King, 1934)[3]
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus alpha (Finlay, 1926)[3]
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus apudalpha (Finlay, 1926)[3]
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus beta (Finlay, 1926)[3]
- † Austrofusus bicarinatus (Suter, 1917)[3]
- Austrofusus chathamensis (Finlay, 1928)[3][1]
- † Austrofusus claviculus (King, 1933)
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus cliftonensis (Marwick, 1926)[3]
- † Austrofusus coerulecens (Finlay, 1930)[3]
- †Austrofusus conoideus (Zittel, 1865)
- † Austrofusus cottoni (King, 1933)[3]
- † Austrofusus crassiaulatus Darragh, 1997
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus demissus (Marwick, 1931)[3]
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus flexuosus (Marshall, 1918)[3]
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus gamma (Finlay, 1926)[3]
- Austrofusus glans (Röding, 1798)[3][1]
- † Austrofusus latecostatus (Suter, 1917)[3]
- † Austrofusus magnificus (Finlay, 1926)[3]
- † Austrofusus marshalli (King], 1933)[3]
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus marwicki (King, 1933)[3]
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus ngatuturaensis (Bartrum & Powell, 1928)[3]
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus oneroaensis (Powell & Batrum, 1929)[3]
- † Austrofusus pagoda (Finlay, 1924)[3]
- † Austrofusus pliocenicus (Powell, 1931)[3]
- † Austrofusus precursor (Finlay, 1926)[3]
- †Austrofusus selwyni (Pritchard, 1896)
- †Austrofusus separabilis P. A. Maxwell, 1992
- † Austrofusus soliarius (Dell, 1950)[3]
- † Austrofusus spiniferus (Finlay & McDowall, 1923)[3]
- Austrofusus steinmanni (Möricke, 1896)
- † Austrofusus taitae (Marwick, 1924)[3]
- † Austrofusus valedictus (King, 1935)[3]
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus zitteli (Suter, 1914)[3]
- Species brought into synonymy
- † Austrofusus propenodosa Bartrum, 1919: synonym of † Zelandiella propenodosa (Bartrum, 1919)
