Fusiturricula
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Fusiturricula is a genus
of sea snail
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Drilliidae
.
that is sister clade to Drilliidae in the cladogram
of the molecular phylogeny
of the Conoidea.. The type species of Fusiturricula, Turris fusinella Dall, 1908, is even different from what is currently conceived as belonging to that genus, but those species are similar to Cruziturricula sensu auctt. Although Fusiturricula (and Cruziturricula) definitely do not belong in the family Drilliidae (they may represent a new family), they are assigned in the Drilliidae provisionally as a working hypothesis.
This genus is included in the family Cochlespiridae
by the website gastropods.com
Species brought into synonymy:
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...
Drilliidae
Drilliidae
Drilliidae is a taxonomic family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.This family has no subfamilies.-Description:...
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Taxonomy
The genus Fusiturricula (together with Cruziturricula) forms an unsupported groupCladistics
Cladistics is a method of classifying species of organisms into groups called clades, which consist of an ancestor organism and all its descendants . For example, birds, dinosaurs, crocodiles, and all descendants of their most recent common ancestor form a clade...
that is sister clade to Drilliidae in the cladogram
Cladogram
A cladogram is a diagram used in cladistics which shows ancestral relations between organisms, to represent the evolutionary tree of life. Although traditionally such cladograms were generated largely on the basis of morphological characters, DNA and RNA sequencing data and computational...
of the molecular phylogeny
Molecular phylogeny
Molecular phylogenetics is the analysis of hereditary molecular differences, mainly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. The result of a molecular phylogenetic analysis is expressed in a phylogenetic tree...
of the Conoidea.. The type species of Fusiturricula, Turris fusinella Dall, 1908, is even different from what is currently conceived as belonging to that genus, but those species are similar to Cruziturricula sensu auctt. Although Fusiturricula (and Cruziturricula) definitely do not belong in the family Drilliidae (they may represent a new family), they are assigned in the Drilliidae provisionally as a working hypothesis.
This genus is included in the family Cochlespiridae
Cochlespiridae
Cochlespiridae is a taxonomic family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.This family is not well differentiated morphologically, and there is poor congruence between the molecular and shell characters. Its limits are uncertain...
by the website gastropods.com
Species
Species within the genus Fusiturricula include:- † Fusiturricula acra (Woodring, 1970) (synonym: Pleurofusia acra Woodring, 1970)
- Fusiturricula andreiFusiturricula andreiFusiturricula andrei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. -Description:The size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 50 mm.-Distribution:...
McLean & Poorman, 1971 - Fusiturricula armildaFusiturricula armildaFusiturricula armilda is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.-Description:The size of an adult shell varies between 17 mm and 60 mm.-Distribution:...
(Dall, 1908) - Fusiturricula bajanensisFusiturricula bajanensisFusiturricula bajanensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. -Description:The size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 85 mm.-References:...
Nowell-Usticke, 1969 - Fusiturricula enaeFusiturricula enaeFusiturricula enae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. -Distribution:This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Caribbean Sea off Puerto Rico at depths between 500 m and 550 m.-References:...
Bartsch, 1934 - Fusiturricula fenimoreiFusiturricula fenimoreiFusiturricula fenimorei, common name Fenimore's turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. -Description:The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 71 mm.-Distribution:...
(Bartsch, 1934) - Fusiturricula fusinella (Dall, 1908)
- Fusiturricula humerosa (Gabb, 1873)
- Fusiturricula iole Woodring, 1928
- Fusiturricula jaquensis (Sowerby I, 1850)
- Fusiturricula lavinoides (Olsson, 1922)
- Fusiturricula maesaeFusiturricula maesaeFusiturricula maesae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. The specific name maesae is named in honor of American malacologist Virginia Orr Maes.-Distribution:...
Rios, 1985 - Fusiturricula sunderlandiFusiturricula sunderlandiFusiturricula sunderlandi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. -Distribution:This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Caribbean Sea off Panama at a depth of 70 m.-References:...
Petuch, 1990 - Fusiturricula taurina (Olsson, 1922)
Species brought into synonymy:
- Fusiturricula dolenta (Dall, 1908) : synonym of Fusiturricula armilda (Dall, 1908)
- Fusiturricula howelli Hertlein & Strong, 1951 : synonym of Knefastia howelliKnefastia howelliKnefastia howelli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids....
(Hertlein & Strong, 1951)