Retifusus

Retifusus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Buccinidae
Genus:	Retifusus Dall, 1916
Type species
Tritonium jessoense Schrenck, 1863
Synonyms
Plicifusus (Retifusus) Dall, 1916

Retifusus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Retifusus include:

• Retifusus attenuatus (Golikov & Gulbin, 1977)
• Retifusus iturupus (Golikov & Sirenko, 1998)
• Retifusus jessoensis (Schrenck, 1863)
• Retifusus latericeus (Möller, 1842)
• Retifusus laticingulatus Golikov & Gulbin, 1977
• Retifusus latiplicatus Kosyan & Kantor, 2014
• Retifusus olivaceus (Bartsch, 1929)
• Retifusus parvus (Tiba, 1980)
• Retifusus roseus (Dall, 1877)
• Retifusus similis (Golikov & Gulbin, 1977)
• Retifusus virens (Dall, 1877)

Species brought into synonymy

• Retifusus brunneus (Dall, 1877): synonym of Retifusus jessoensis (Schrenck, 1863)
• Retifusus incisus (Dall, 1919): synonym of Plicifusus olivaceus (Aurivillius, 1885)
• Retifusus olivaceus (Aurivillius, 1885): synonym of Plicifusus olivaceus (Aurivillius, 1885)
• Retifusus semiplicatus Golikov, 1985: synonym of Retifusus parvus (Tiba, 1980)
• Retifusus yanamii (Yokoyama, 1926): synonym of Retifusus virens (Dall, 1877)

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2014). Retifusus Dall, 1916. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=576159 on 2014-12-04

• Dall W.H. (1916). Prodrome of a revision of the chrysodomoid whelks of the boreal and arctic regions. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 29: 7-8.

External links

• Kosyan A.R. & Kantor Y.I. (2014). Revision of the genus Retifusus Dall, 1916 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae). Ruthenica. 24(2): 129-172