Fossil shell of Fusinus longiroster from Pliocene of Italy
Fusinus sp. from the Pliocene of Cyprus.

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

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

  1. ^ Rafinesque C. S. (1815). Analyse de la nature : or, Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. p. [145].
  2. ^ a b c Bouchet, Philippe (2018). Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Fusinus Rafinesque, 1815". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  3. ^ "Opinion 1765". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 51 (2): 159. 1994.
  4. ^ "Fusinus". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Fusinus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  6. ^ Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca. Auckland, New Zealand: William Collins Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
  • Buzzurro G. & Russo P. (2007). Fusinus del Mediterraneo. published by the authors
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