Biology:Austropusilla

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Austropusilla
Austropusilla hilum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Austropusilla Laseron, 1954
Type species
Mangelia hilum Hedley, 1908
Species
See text

Austropusilla is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.

Distribution

This marine genus used to be endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria. A. simoniana occurs off the Cape Province, South Africa.

Species

Species within the genus Austropusilla include:

• Austropusilla hilum (Hedley, 1908)
• Austropusilla profundis Laseron, 1954
• Austropusilla simoniana Kilburn, 1974

Synonyms

• subgenus Austropusilla (Metaclathurella) Shuto, 1983: synonym of Otitoma Jousseaume, 1898
• Austropusilla crokerensis Shuto, 1983: synonym of Otitoma crokerensis (Shuto, 1983) (original combination)

References

• Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales pp. 56, pls 1–12.
• Powell, A.W.B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae, an evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with list of characteristic species. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 5: 1–184, pls 1–23

External links

• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Raphitomidae
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf. 

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