Fusinus

Fusinus Temporal range: Cretaceous - Recent PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N

A live individual of Fusinus robustus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Fasciolariidae
Subfamily:	Fusininae
Genus:	Fusinus Rafinesque, 1815
Type species
Murex colus, Linnaeus, 1758
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Aptysis [sic] (misspelling of Aptyxis Troschel, 1868) Aptyxis Troschel, 1868 Barbarofusus Grabau & Shimer, 1909 Exilifusus Gabb, 1876 † Fusinus (Barbarofusus) Grabau & Shimer, 1909 Fusinus (Sinistralia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 Fusus Bruguière, 1789 (invalid: junior homonym of Fusus Helbling, 1779. Placed by the ICZN on the Official Index by Opinion 1765, 1994, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 51(2): 159. ) Gracilipurpura Jousseaume, 1881 † Harfordia Dall, 1921 Heilprinia Grabau, 1904 Propefusus Iredale, 1924 Pseudofusus Monterosato, 1884 Sinistralia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 Tritonium (Fusus) Bruguière, 1789

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

See text.

Fusinus is a genus of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails and tulip snaills.

This genus is known in the fossil records from the Cretaceous to the Quaternary (age range: from 94.3 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata all over the worls.

Species in the genus Fusinus include:

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Fusinus

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