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| Austrofusus glans | |
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| A dorsal view of a shell of Austrofusus glans | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Prosiphonidae |
| Genus: | Austrofusus |
| Species: | A. glans |
| Binomial name | |
| Austrofusus glans (Röding, 1798) | |
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Austrofusus glans is a species of medium-sized sea snail or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Prosiphonidae.[1]
Description
[edit]Austrofusus glans is a medium-sized species of buccinid whelk.[2][3] The species occurs in shallow, subtidal depths down to at least 600 metres on sandy or soft-bottom sediments.[4]
(Described as Buccinum triton) The shell is ovate-elongate, swollen, and broad, and it is marked with transverse striations composed of very fine striae. It consists of six convex whorls, which are somewhat angled at the middle and encircled with a band of conical tubercles.
The aperture is oblong and milky in color. The outer lip has a wavy margin, and the spire is twisted, broad, and sinuous. The siphonal canal is wide and well-developed.[5]
Distribution
[edit]The marine species is endemic to New Zealand.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Austrofusus glans (Röding, 1798). 26 February 2026. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- 1 2 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- 1 2 3 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. Bibcode:2017MolPE.114..367V. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.018. PMID 28669812.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Lesson, R.P. (1841). "Description de deux coquilles nouvelles". Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuviérienne. 4: 37. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Finlay, H.J. (1927). Additions to the recent molluscan fauna of New Zealand. No. 2. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 57: 485-487.
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
External links
[edit]- Röding, P.F. (1798). Röding. Hamburg: Trapp. p. 56. Retrieved 31 March 2026.
- Martyn, T. (1784–1787). he universal conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known shells. London: privately published.
- Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de M. de]. (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23. Paris: Vve Agasse. p. 8.
- Gray, J.E. (1843). Gray. Vol. 2. p. 230.
- Lesson, R.P. (1841). "Lesson". Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuviérienne. 4: 37.
- Iredale, T. (1937). "Notes on neozelanic deepwater marine Mollusca". Records of the Australian Museum. 20 (2): 107. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.20.1937.252.
