Fusiturricula Explained

Fusiturricula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.^[1]

Taxonomy

The genus Fusiturricula (together with Cruziturricula) forms an unsupported group that is sister clade to Drilliidae in the cladogram of the molecular phylogeny of the Conoidea.. The type species of Fusiturricula, Turris fusinella Dall, 1908, is even different from what is currently conceived as belonging to that genus, but those species are similar to Cruziturricula sensu auctt.^[2] Although Fusiturricula (and Cruziturricula) definitely do not belong in the family Drilliidae (they may represent a new family), they are assigned in the Drilliidae provisionally as a working hypothesis.^[3]

This genus is included in the family Cochlespiridae by the website gastropods.com ^[4]

Species

Species within the genus Fusiturricula include:

• † Fusiturricula acra (Woodring, 1970) (synonym: Pleurofusia acra Woodring, 1970)
• Fusiturricula andrei McLean & Poorman, 1971
• Fusiturricula armilda (Dall, 1908)
• Fusiturricula bajanensis Nowell-Usticke, 1969
• Fusiturricula dolenta (Dall, 1908)
• Fusiturricula enae Bartsch, 1934
• Fusiturricula fenimorei (Bartsch, 1934)
• Fusiturricula fusinella (Dall, 1908)
• Fusiturricula humerosa (Gabb, 1873)
• Fusiturricula iole Woodring, 1928
• Fusiturricula jaquensis (Sowerby II, 1850)
• Fusiturricula lavinoides (Olsson, 1922)
• Fusiturricula maesae Rios, 1985
• Fusiturricula notilla (Dall, 1908)
• † Fusiturricula panola Woodring 1928
• Fusiturricula paulettae Princz 1978 (synonym: Knefastia paulettae);^[5] Fusiturricula jaquensis (G.B. II Sowerby, 1850))
• † Fusiturricula springvaleensis Mansfield 1925 (synonym:Turricula springvaleensis) ^[6]
• Fusiturricula sunderlandi Petuch, 1990
• Fusiturricula taurina (Olsson, 1922)
• † Fusiturricula yasila Olsson 1930 ^[7]

Species brought into synonymy:

• Fusiturricula altenai Macsotay and Campos 2001: synonym of † Fusiturricula springvaleensis Mansfield 1925
• Fusiturricula howelli Hertlein & Strong, 1951: synonym of Knefastia howelli (Hertlein & Strong, 1951)

References

• W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results . Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
• WMSDB - Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: family Drilliidae

Notes and References

1. P. Bouchet . Yu. I. Kantor . A. Sysoev . N. Puillandre . 2011 . A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda) . . 77 . 3 . 273–308 . 10.1093/mollus/eyr017. free .
2. Williams, M. 2006. Shallow-water Turridae of Florida and theCaribbean. M. Williams, Tallevast, Florida
3. https://archive.today/20120710161524/http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/77/3/273.full Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
4. http://www.gastropods.com/Taxon_pages/Family_COCHLESPIRIDAE.shtml#COCHLESPIRIDAE Gastropods.com: Cochlespiridae; retrieved: 25 October 2011)
5. B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221
6. W. C. Mansfield. 1925. Miocene gastropods and scaphopods from Trinidad, British West Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 66(22):9116-9125
7. A. A. Olsson. 1930. Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca. Bulletins of American Paleontology 17(62):1-164