Aulacofusus Dall 1918

Genus Aulacofusus Dall, 1918 Type species: Fusus spitzbergensis, Reeve, 1855 [= Fusus brevicauda Deshayes, 1832] (by OD). Diagnosis: Small to medium size (to 9 cm); shell fusiform, whorls rounded. Axial sculpture absent. Spiral sculpture pronounced; protoconch and apical whorls projecting, siphonal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mclean, James H., Clark, Roger N.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2023
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Buccinidae
Aulacofusus
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/8391571
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8391571
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Summary:Genus Aulacofusus Dall, 1918 Type species: Fusus spitzbergensis, Reeve, 1855 [= Fusus brevicauda Deshayes, 1832] (by OD). Diagnosis: Small to medium size (to 9 cm); shell fusiform, whorls rounded. Axial sculpture absent. Spiral sculpture pronounced; protoconch and apical whorls projecting, siphonal canal short to relatively long. Published as part of Mclean, James H. & Clark, Roger N., 2023, Seven new genera and thirty-four new species of buccinoid gastropods (Neogastropoda: Buccinidae) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, pp. 151-201 in Zootaxa 5351 (2) on page 174, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5351.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8391375

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