Hemifusus
| Hemifusus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Melongenidae |
| Genus: | Hemifusus Swainson, 1840[1] |
| Type species | |
| Pugilina (Hemifusus) colosseus Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Hemifusus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Melongenidae, the crown conches and their allies.[2]
Description[edit]
The type description of genus Hemifusus by English malacologist William John Swainson reads as follows:[1]
Unequally fusiform, the spire being shorter than aperture; shell ponderous, coronated with compressed spines; and internal and ascending canal at the top of aperture.
Species[edit]
Species within the genus Hemifusus include:
- Hemifusus alfi Thach, 2021
- Hemifusus boucheti Thach, 2017
- † Hemifusus charlieleei Harzhauser, Raven & Landau, 2018
- Hemifusus colosseus (Lamarck, 1816)
- Hemifusus crassacauda (Philippi, 1849)
- Hemifusus hitoshiikedai Thach, 2020
- Hemifusus kawamurai Kira, 1965
- Hemifusus schuetti Alf & Thach, 2021
- Hemifusus treudei Alf & Thach, 2021
- Hemifusus tuba (Gmelin, 1791)
- Hemifusus yurikantori Thach, 2017
- Species brought into synonymy
- Hemifusus crassicaudus (Philippi, 1849) : synonym of Hemifusus crassacauda (Philippi, 1849)
- Hemifusus elongatus (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Pugilina elongata (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Lenifusus elongatus (Lamarck, 1822)
- Hemifusus ternatanus (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Brunneifusus ternatanus (Gmelin, 1791)
- † Hemifusus washingtonianus Weaver, 1912: synonym of † Whitneyella washingtoniana (Weaver, 1912) (original combination)
- Hemifusus zhangyii Kosuge, 2008:[3] synonym of Pyrula elongata Lamarck, 1822: synonym of Lenifusus elongatus (Lamarck, 1822)
References[edit]
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[1]
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
- ^ a b c Swainson W. J. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shellfish. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia. London. 91: 308.
- ^ a b Hemifusus Swainson, 1840. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 April 2011.
- ^ Hemifusus zhangyii Kosuge, 2008. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 April 2010.
- Dekkers A. (2018). Two new genera in the family Melongenidae from the Indo-Pacific and comments on the identity of Hemifusus zhangyii Kosuge, 2008 and Pyrula elongata Lamarck, 1822 (Gastropoda, Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea). Gloria Maris. 57(2): 40-50
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