Fusinus

Fusinus is a genus of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails and tulip snaills. [3]

For ships name Fusinus, see Fusinus (ship).

Fusinus
Temporal range: Cretaceous - Recent
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]
  • 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, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 51(2): 159. )
  • Gracilipurpura Jousseaume, 1881 †
  • Heilprinia Grabau, 1904
  • Propefusus Iredale, 1924
  • Pseudofusus Monterosato, 1884
  • Sinistralia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
  • Tritonium (Fusus) Bruguière, 1789
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 whorls.[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 [7]

Species brought into synonymy

References
  1. Rafinesque C. S. (1815). Analyse: 145.
  2. WoRMS : Fusinus; accessed : 1 September 2010
  3. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Fusinus Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138002 on 2020-11-27
  4. Fossilworks
  5. "Fusinus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  6. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  7. WoRMS : Fusinus
  • Buzzurro G. & Russo P. (2007). Fusinus del Mediterraneo. published by the authors
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