Biology:Alcithoe fusus

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Alcithoe fusus
Alcithoe fusus (MNHN-IM-2000-6156).jpeg
Shell of Alcithoe fusus (neotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Volutoidea
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Alcithoe
Species:
A. fusus
Binomial name
Alcithoe fusus
Quoy and Gaimard, 1833
Synonyms
  • Alcithoe (Leporemax) fusus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
  • Alcithoe (Leporemax) fusus haurakiensis Dell, 1956
  • Alcithoe fusus fusus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
  • Alcithoe fusus haurakiensis Dell, 1956
  • Alcithoe fusus hedleyi (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
  • Fulgoraria (Alcithoe) hedleyi Murdoch & Suter, 1906
  • Fulguraria (Alcithoe) hedleyi Murdoch & Suter, 1906
  • Leporemax fusus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
  • Leporemax fusus var. ruahiniensis R. M. Carter, 1972 (invalid: infrasubspecific name)
  • Voluta (Alcithoe) subplicata Hutton, 1873
  • Voluta fusus Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
  • Voluta gracilis Swainson, 1824

Alcithoe fusus is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Zealand

References

  • Dell, R. K. (1956). Some new off-shore Mollusca from New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum. 3(1): 27-59.
  • Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN:0-00-216906-1
  • Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN:0-85467-054-8
  • Maxwell, P. A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D. P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
  • Hills S.F.K., Trewick S.A. & Morgan-Richards M. (2011). Phylogenetic information of genes, illustrated with mitochondrial data from a genus of gastropod molluscs. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 104: 770-785

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3176855 entry