Cryptofusus

Genus of gastropods

Cryptofusus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Turbinellidae
Subfamily:
Turbinellinae
Genus:
Cryptofusus

Beu, 2011
species

See text

Synonyms[1]

Pleia Finlay, 1930

Cryptofusus is a monospecific genus of large sea snails with a gill and an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinellidae.[1]

Distribution

This marine species can be found along New Zealand

Species

  • Cryptofusus cryptocarinatus (Dell, 1956)

References

  1. ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2011). Cryptofusus Beu, 2011 . Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204588 on 2011-04-27
  • Beu, AG (2011). "Marine Mollusca of isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia)". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 41: 1–153. doi:10.1080/03036758.2011.548763.
Taxon identifiers
Cryptofusus