Hemifusus
Encyclopedia
Hemifusus is a genus
of sea snail
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Melongenidae
, the crown conches and their allies.
Species brought into synonymy :
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Melongenidae
Melongenidae
Melongenidae, the crown conchs, busycon whelks and their relatives, are a taxonomic family of large to very large marine gastropods in the clade Neogastropoda.- Taxonomy :Genera Busycon and Busycotypus were placed in Melongenidae...
, the crown conches and their allies.
Description
The type description of genus Hemifusus by English malacologist William John Swainson reads as follows:Species
Species within the genus Hemifusus include:- Hemifusus colosseus (Lamarck, 1816)
- Hemifusus crassacauda (Philippi, 1849)
- Hemifusus elongata (Lamarck, 1822)
- Hemifusus kawamurai Kira, 1965
- Hemifusus ternatanus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Hemifusus tuba (Gmelin, 1791)
- Hemifusus zhangyiiHemifusus zhangyiiHemifusus zhangyii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Melongenidae, the crown conches and their allies.-External links:*...
Kosuge, 2008
Species brought into synonymy :
- Hemifusus crassicaudus (Philippi, 1849) : synonym of Hemifusus crassacauda (Philippi, 1849)