| Austrofusus Temporal range: Middle Paleocene to Recent, 42.6–0.0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| A dorsal view of a shell of Austrofusus glans | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Buccinidae |
| Genus: | Austrofusus Kobelt, 1879 |
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Austrofusus is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or whelks, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Description
Two extant species Austrofusus glans and A. chathamensis are endemic to New Zealand waters, but most species are extinct and there is an abundant fossil record within the country.
Evolution
Austrofusus glans is not closely related to other extant New Zealand buccinid whelks, and is instead related to the Northern Hemisphere genus Colus.
Species
Species within the genus Austrofusus include:
- † Austrofusus acuticostatus (Suter, 1917)
- † Austrofusus affiliatus (Finlay, 1926)
- † Austrofusus allani (King, 1934)
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus alpha (Finlay, 1926)
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus apudalpha (Finlay, 1926)
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus beta (Finlay, 1926)
- † Austrofusus bicarinatus (Suter, 1917)
- Austrofusus chathamensis (Finlay, 1928)
- † Austrofusus claviculus (King, 1933)
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus cliftonensis (Marwick, 1926)
- † Austrofusus coerulecens (Finlay, 1930)
- † Austrofusus cottoni (King, 1933)
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus demissus (Marwick, 1931)
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus flexuosus (Marshall, 1918)
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus gamma (Finlay, 1926)
- Austrofusus glans (Röding, 1798)
- † Austrofusus latecostatus (Suter, 1917)
- † Austrofusus magnificus (Finlay, 1926)
- † Austrofusus marshalli (King], 1933)
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus marwicki (King, 1933)
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus ngatuturaensis (Bartrum & Powell, 1928)
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus oneroaensis (Powell & Batrum, 1929)
- † Austrofusus pagoda (Finlay, 1924)
- †Austrofusus pliocenicus (Powell, 1931)
- † Austrofusus precursor (Finlay, 1926)
- † Austrofusus soliarius (Dell, 1950)
- † Austrofusus spiniferus (Finlay & McDowall, 1923)
- † Austrofusus taitae (Marwick, 1924)
- † Austrofusus valedictus (King, 1935)
- † (Neocola) Austrofusus zitteli (Suter, 1914)
- Species brought into synonymy
- † Austrofusus propenodosa Bartrum, 1919: synonym of † Zelandiella propenodosa (Bartrum, 1919)
References
- ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Willan, R.C., de C. Cook, S., Spencer, H.G., Creese, R.G., O’Shea, S., Jackson, G.D. Phylum Mollusca. In: de C. Cook, S.C. (eds.), New Zealand Coastal Marine Invertebrates 1, 395 – 396. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand ISBN 978-1877257-60-5
- ^ Beu, A.G. and Maxwell, P.A. 1990. Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin, 58.
- Vaux, Felix; Hills, Simon F.K.; Marshall, Bruce A.; Trewick, Steven A.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2017). "A phylogeny of Southern Hemisphere whelks (Gastropoda: Buccinulidae) and concordance with the fossil record". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 114 (2017): 367–381. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.018. PMID 28669812.
Further reading
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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