Austrofusus glans

Austrofusus glans
	A dorsal view of a shell of Austrofusus glans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Buccinidae
Genus:	Austrofusus
Species:	A. glans
Binomial name
	Austrofusus glans; (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms
	Aethocola glans (Röding, 1798); Austrofusus (Austrofusus) glans (Röding, 1798)· accepted, alternate representation; Austrofusus glans agrestior Finlay, 1927; Austrofusus glans tragulatus Iredale, 1937; Buccinum nodosum Martyn, 1784; Buccinum triton Lesson, 1841; Drupa glans Röding, 1798 (original combination); Fusus nodosus Gray, 1843; Fusus raphanus Lamarck, 1816; Siphonalia nodosa (Martyn, 1784);

Austrofusus glans is a species of medium-sized sea snail or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.^[1]^[2]

Description[edit]

Austrofusus glans is a medium-sized species of buccinid whelk.^[1]^[2] The species occurs in shallow, subtidal depths down to at least 600 metres on sandy or soft-bottom sediments.^[3]

Distribution[edit]

The species is endemic to New Zealand.^[2]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
^ ^a ^b ^c 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. 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

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[Powell_1979-1] Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

[Vaux_2017B-2] 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. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.018. PMID 28669812.

[Willan_2010-3] 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

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