Hemifusus
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| Hemifusus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Melongenidae |
| Genus: | Hemifusus Swainson, 1840[1] |
| Type species | |
| Pugilina (Hemifusus) colosseus Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Hemifusus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Melongenidae, the crown conches and their allies.[2]
The type description of genus Hemifusus by English malacologist William Swainson reads as follows:[1]
Unequally fusiform, the spire being shorter than aperture; shell ponderous, coronated with compressed spines; and internal and ascending canal at the top of aperture.