Pleurofusia is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Pleurofusia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Pleurofusia
de Gregorio, 1890
Type species
† Pleurotoma longirostropsis de Gregorio, 1890
Species

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Synonyms
  • Pleurotoma (Pleurofusia) de Gregorio, 1890
  • Surcula (Pleurofusia) (de Gregorio, 1890)
  • Turricula (Pleurofusia) (de Gregorio, 1890)

Species edit

Species within the genus Pleurofusia include:

References edit

  1. ^ Bouchet, P. (2016). Pleurofusia de Gregorio, 1890 †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=867605 on 2016-11-01
  • E. Vredenburg. 1921. Comparative diagnoses of Pleurotomidae from the Tertiary formations of Burma. Records of the Geological Survey of India 53:83-129
  • W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299–452
  • E. J. Petuch. 1997. A new gastropod fauna from an Oligocene back-reef lagoonal environment in west central Florida. The Nautilus 110(4):122–138
  • Lozouet P. (2015). Nouvelles espèces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de l'Oligocène et du Miocène inférieur d'Aquitaine (Sud-Ouest de la France). Partie 5. Cossmanniana. 17: 15–84

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