Plicifusus kroyeri

Plicifusus kroyeri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Plicifusus kroyeri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Tudiclidae
Genus:	Plicifusus
Species:	P. kroyeri
Binomial name
Plicifusus kroyeri (Möller, 1842)
Synonyms
Buccinum cretaceum Reeve, 1847 Colus cretaceus (Reeve, 1847) Colus kroeyeri (Møller, 1842) Colus kroyeri (Møller, 1842) · Fusus arcticus Philippi, 1850 Fusus kroeyeri Møller, 1842 (basionym) Fusus kroeyeri var. grossestriata Aurivillius, 1885 Fusus kroeyeri var. major Mörch, 1869 Fusus kroeyeri var. pumila Mörch, 1869 Plicifusus arcticus (Philippi, 1850) Plicifusus obtustatus Golikov, in Golikov & Scarlato, 1985 Plicifusus polypleuratus (Dall, 1907) Sipho plicatus A. Adams, 1863 Tritonofusus polypleuratus Dall, 1907

Distribution

Northern Pacific Ocean.
Trawled at 300–350 m. depth, off Hokkaido, Japan.

References

• Brunel, P., L. Bosse, and G. Lamarche. 1998. Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
• Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225–383
• Kosyan A.R. & Kantor Y.I. (2012) Revision of the genus Plicifusus Dall, 1902 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae). Ruthenica 22(2): 55–92