Fusinus Rafinesque, 1815

Lyons, William G. & Snyder, Martin Avery, 2019, Fasciolariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) of French Guiana and nearby regions, with descriptions of two new species and comments on marine zoogeography of northeastern South America, Zootaxa 4585 (2), pp. 239-268 : 252

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4585.2.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5462145
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scientific name	Fusinus Rafinesque, 1815
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Genus Fusinus Rafinesque, 1815 View in CoL

Type species: Murex colus Linnaeus, 1758 , Recent, Indo-West Pacific, by monotypy.

Although Vermeij & Snyder (2018: 61) made clear that there are no species of Fusinus s.s. in the New World and reclassified in other genera most of the larger New World species formerly placed in Fusinus , they did not mention two of the Guianan species. We have retained those two species in Fusinus s.l. for lack of a more appropriate genus in which to place them.