Hemifusus
| Hemifusus | |
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| Shell of Hemifusus ternatanus from Japan at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| 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 mollusks in the family Melongenidae, the crown conches and their allies.[2]
Description
The type description of genus Hemifusus by English malacologist William John Swainson reads as follows:[1]
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Unequally fusiform, the spire being shorter than aperture; shell ponderous, coronated with compressed spines; and internal and ascending canal at the top of aperture. |
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Species
Species within the genus Hemifusus include:
- Hemifusus colosseus (Lamarck, 1816)
- Hemifusus crassacauda (Philippi, 1849)
- Hemifusus elongatus (Lamarck, 1822)
- Hemifusus kawamurai Kira, 1965
- Hemifusus ternatanus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Hemifusus tuba (Gmelin, 1791)
- Hemifusus zhangyii Kosuge, 2008[3]
- Species brought into synonymy
- Hemifusus crassicaudus (Philippi, 1849) : synonym of Hemifusus crassacauda (Philippi, 1849)
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[1]
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Swainson W. J. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shellfish. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia. London. 91: 308.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hemifusus Swainson, 1840. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 April 2011.
- ↑ Hemifusus zhangyii Kosuge, 2008. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 April 2010.