Retifusus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Retimohniidae, the true whelks and the like.[1]

Retifusus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Retimohniidae
Genus: Retifusus
Dall, 1916
Type species
Tritonium jessoense Schrenck, 1863
Synonyms

Plicifusus (Retifusus) Dall, 1916

Species edit

Species within the genus Retifusus include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Retifusus brunneus (Dall, 1877): synonym of Retifusus jessoensis (Schrenck, 1863)
  • Retifusus incisus (Dall, 1919): synonym of Plicifusus olivaceus (Aurivillius, 1885)
  • Retifusus olivaceus (Aurivillius, 1885): synonym of Plicifusus olivaceus (Aurivillius, 1885)
  • Retifusus semiplicatus Golikov, 1985: synonym of Retifusus parvus (Tiba, 1980)
  • Retifusus yanamii (Yokoyama, 1926): synonym of Retifusus virens (Dall, 1877)

References edit

  1. ^ Bouchet, P. (2014). Retifusus Dall, 1916. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=576159 on 2014-12-04
  • Dall W.H. (1916). Prodrome of a revision of the chrysodomoid whelks of the boreal and arctic regions. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 29: 7-8.

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