Fusinus

Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fusinus is a genus of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails and tulip snails.[2]

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Fusinus
Temporal range: Cretaceous – Recent
Shell of Fusinus inglorius
Scientific classification Edit this 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]
  • Barbarofusus Grabau & Shimer, 1909
  • Exilifusus Gabb, 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[3])
  • Gracilipurpura Jousseaume, 1881
  • Heilprinia Grabau, 1904
  • Propefusus Iredale, 1924
  • Sinistralia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
  • Tritonium (Fusus) Bruguière, 1789
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Fossil shell of Fusinus longiroster from Pliocene of Italy
Fusinus sp. from the Pliocene of Cyprus.

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[2]

Species brought into synonymy

References

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