Two new genera in the family Melongenidae from the Indo-Pacific and comments on the identity of Hemifusus zhangyii Kosuge, 2008 and Pyrula elongata Lamarck, 1822 (Gastropoda, Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea)
Dekkers, A.M. (2018). Two new genera in the family Melongenidae from the Indo-Pacific and comments on the identity of Hemifusus zhangyii Kosuge, 2008 and Pyrula elongata Lamarck, 1822 (Gastropoda, Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea). Gloria Maris 57(2): 40-50
In: Gloria Maris. Belgische Vereniging voor Conchyliologie: Deurne. ISSN 0778-4767, more
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Classification > Taxonomy
India
Taxa > New taxa > New genera
Brunneifusus Dekkers, 2018 [WoRMS]; Hemifusus zhangyii Kosuge, 2008 [WoRMS]; Lenifusus Dekkers, 2018 [WoRMS]; Melongenidae T. Gill, 1871 (1854) [WoRMS]; Pyrula elongata Lamarck, 1822 [WoRMS]
India [Marine Regions]
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| Abstract |
It is proposed to limit the genus Hemifusus Swainson, 1840 to the larger, deeper-water species from the West Pacific (though not recorded in the Philippines) with up to larger than 30 cm, cream-coloured shells with a non-determined outer lip and predominantly spiral ribbing, and to place the smaller, shallow subtidal species with a range from India to the West Pacific and smaller than 17 cm brown shells in the new genera Brunneifususand Lenifusus. These shells also have a more determined outer lip (especially in Lenifusus gen. nov.) and other morphological differences with Hemifusus. |
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