Fossarus

Fossarus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Planaxidae
Subfamily: Fossarinae
Genus: Fossarus
Philippi, 1841[1]
Type species
Fossarus adansoni Philippi, 1841
Synonyms[2]
  • Fossar Gray, 1847 (invalid: unjustified emendation of Fossarus)
  • Maravignia Aradas & Maggiore, 1844

Fossarus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Planaxidae.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Fossarus include:

  • Fossarus abjectus (C.B. Adams, 1852)
  • Fossarus ambiguus (Linnaeus, 1758)[3]
  • Fossarus angiostoma (C.B. Adams, 1852)
  • Fossarus angulatus Carpenter, 1857
  • Fossarus atratus (C.B. Adams, 1852)
  • Fossarus beccarii (Tapparone Canefri, 1875)
  • Fossarus bellus Dall, 1889[4]
  • Fossarus brumalis Hedley, 1907
  • Fossarus cancellarius Melvill, 1918
  • Fossarus capensis Pilsbry, 1901
  • Fossarus cereus Watson, 1880
  • Fossarus cumingii (A. Adams, 1855)
  • Fossarus dentifer E. A. Smith, 1890
  • Fossarus elegans Verrill & Smith, 1882[5]
  • Fossarus erythraoensis:[6] taxon inquerendum
  • Fossarus eutorniscus Melvill, 1918
  • Fossarus excavatus (C.B. Adams, 1852)
  • Fossarus fischeri Mörch, 1877
  • Fossarus foveatus (C.B. Adams, 1852)
  • Fossarus garrettii Pease, 1868
  • Fossarus guayaquilensis Bartsch, 1928
  • Fossarus japonicus (A. Adams, 1861)
  • Fossarus laeviusculus E. A. Smith, 1890
  • Fossarus lamellosus Mountrouzier, 1861 [7]
  • Fossarus lucanus Dall, 1919
  • Fossarus lui S.-I Huang, 2012
  • Fossarus macmurdensis (Hedley, 1911)[8]
  • Fossarus mediocris de Folin, 1867
  • Fossarus megasoma (C.B. Adams, 1852)
  • Fossarus orbignyi P. Fischer, 1864[9]
  • Fossarus porcatus (Philippi, 1845)
  • Fossarus purus Carpenter, 1864
  • Fossarus sydneyensis Hedley, 1900
  • Fossarus tornatilis (Gould, 1859)
  • Fossarus translucens Barnard, 1969
  • Fossarus trochlearis A. Adams, 1853
  • Fossarus tuberosus Carpenter, 1857
Species brought into synonymy

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