Chryseofusus Explained
Chryseofusus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Fusininae of the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.
Originally a subgenus of Fusinus, Chryseofusus was raised to the rank of genus by Callomon & Snyder, 2009 [1]
Species
Species within the genus Chryseofusus include:
- Chryseofusus acherusius (Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003)
- Chryseofusus alisae (Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003)
- Chryseofusus alisonae (Hadorn, Snyder & Fraussen, 2008)
- Chryseofusus artutus (Fraussen & Hadorn, 2003)
- Chryseofusus bonaespei (Barnard, 1959)
- Chryseofusus bradneri (Drivas & Jay, 1990)
- Chryseofusus cadus (Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003)
- Chryseofusus chrysodomoides (Schepman, 1911)
- Chryseofusus dapsilis (Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003)
- Chryseofusus graciliformis (G.B. Sowerby II, 1880)
- Chryseofusus hyphalus (M. Smith, 1940)
- Chryseofusus jurgeni (Hadorn & Fraussen, 2002)
- Chryseofusus kazdailisi (Fraussen & Hadorn, 2000)
- Chryseofusus lecourtorum Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, 2014
- Chryseofusus lorenzi Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, 2014
- Chryseofusus riscus (Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003)
- Chryseofusus satsumaensis (Hadorn & Chino, 2005)
- Chryseofusus scissus (Fraussen & Hadorn, 2003)
- Chryseofusus subangulatus (Martens, 1901)
- Chryseofusus wareni (Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003)
- Chryseofusus westralis (Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003)
References
- Hadorn R. & Fraussen K. (2003). The deep-water Indo-Pacific radiation of Fusinus (Chryseofusus subgen. nov.) (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae). Iberus 21(1):207-240
- Fraussen K. & Stahlschmidt P. (2014). Two new Chryseofusus Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003 (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae) from the Nazareth Bank (Mascarene Plateau). Vita Malacologica. 12: 31–35.
page(s): 32, pl. 2 figs 6a-e
Notes and References
- http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1635/053.158.0111?journalCode=ansp Paul Callomon, Martin Avery Snyder, On Some Fusinus from the East and South China Seas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae), with Description of a New Species, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 158(1):209-219. 2009
