Alcithoe fusus

Alcithoe fusus is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Alcithoe fusus
Shell of Alcithoe fusus (neotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Volutoidea
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Alcithoe
Species:	A. fusus
Binomial name
Alcithoe fusus Quoy and Gaimard, 1833
Synonyms
Alcithoe (Leporemax) fusus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Alcithoe (Leporemax) fusus haurakiensis Dell, 1956 Alcithoe fusus fusus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Alcithoe fusus haurakiensis Dell, 1956 Alcithoe fusus hedleyi (Murdoch & Suter, 1906) Fulgoraria (Alcithoe) hedleyi Murdoch & Suter, 1906 Fulguraria (Alcithoe) hedleyi Murdoch & Suter, 1906 Leporemax fusus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Leporemax fusus var. ruahiniensis R. M. Carter, 1972 (invalid: infrasubspecific name) Voluta (Alcithoe) subplicata Hutton, 1873 Voluta fusus Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 Voluta gracilis Swainson, 1824

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Zealand

References

• Dell, R. K. (1956). Some new off-shore Mollusca from New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum. 3(1): 27-59.
• Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-85467-054-8
• Maxwell, P. A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D. P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
• Hills S.F.K., Trewick S.A. & Morgan-Richards M. (2011). Phylogenetic information of genes, illustrated with mitochondrial data from a genus of gastropod molluscs. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 104: 770-785

External links

• Quoy, J. R. C. & Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe : exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie
• Swainson, W. J. (1824). The characters of several new shells, belonging to the Linnean Volutæ, with a few observations on the present state of conchology. Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts. 17(33): 28-38
• Hutton, F. W. (1873). Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species. Didsbury, Wellington, xx + 116 pp.
• Murdoch, R.; Suter, H. (1906). Results of dredging on the continental shelf of New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 38: 278-305