Afer (gastropod) explained

Afer is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tudiclidae.

Species

Species within the genus Afer include:

• Afer afer (Gmelin, 1791)
• Afer cumingii (Reeve, 1848)
• Afer echinatus Fraussen, 2008
• Afer ignifer Fraussen & Trencart, 2008
• Afer lansbergisi Delsaerdt, 1993
• † Afer macrospira (Cossmann, 1903)
• † Afer orangensis (Beets, 1942)
• Afer porphyrostoma (Reeve, 1847)
• Afer pseudofusinus Fraussen & Hadorn, 2000
• Afer trauseli Thach, 2023
• † Afer uhli Traub, 1979

Species brought into synonymy:

• Afer africanus (Sowerby III, 1897): synonym of Africofusus africanus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1897) (superseded combination)
• Afer chinensis MacNeil, 1960: synonym of Siphonofusus chinensis (MacNeil, 1960)
• † Afer wanneri (Beets, 1942): synonym of † Euthria wanneri (Beets, 1942)

External links

• Conrad T.A. (1858). Observations of a group of Cretaceous fossil shells, found in Tippah County, Mississippi, with descriptions of fifty-six new species. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. ser. 2, 3: 323-336, pls 34-35
• Gill, T. (1867). On the genus Fulgur and its allies. American Journal of Conchology. 3: 141-152