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Fusinus humboldti Poorman, 1981

Deep water (more than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Buccinoidea

Family
Fasciolariidae

Genus
Fusinus

Species
humboldti

Taxon category: Accepted

AMNH: 198694 (Paratype), LACM: 1935 (Holotype, type locality: Galapagos), 1943 (Paratypes), 67229

Origin: Endemic

References

  • Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
  • Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
  • Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
  • Poorman, L.H. (1981) New species of Fusinus from the Tropical Eastern Pacific. The Veliger 23(4): 339-344.

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