Aulacofusus
Encyclopedia
Aulacofusus is a genus
of sea snail
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Buccinidae
, the true whelks.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Buccinidae
Buccinidae
Buccinidae is a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks.True whelks are mostly marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda...
, the true whelks.
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Aulacofusus :- Aulacofusus brevicauda (Deshayes, 1832)
- Aulacofusus caerulescens Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961
- Aulacofusus calamaeus (Dall, 1907)
- Aulacofusus calathus (Dall, 1919)
- Aulacofusus capponius (Dall, 1919)
- Aulacofusus herendeeni (Dall, 1902)
- Aulacofusus hiranoi (Shikama, 1962)
- Aulacofusus nobilis (Dall, 1919)
- Aulacofusus ombronius (Dall, 1919)
- Aulacofusus periscelidus (Dall, 1891)
- Aulacofusus sapius (Dall, 1919)
- Aulacofusus schantaricus (Middendorff, 1849)