Plicifusus kroyeri

Plicifusus kroyeri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]

Plicifusus kroyeri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Plicifusus
Species:
P. kroyeri
Binomial name
Plicifusus kroyeri
(Möller, 1842)
Synonyms[1]
  • Buccinum cretaceum Reeve, 1847
  • Colus cretaceus (Reeve, 1847)
  • Colus kroeyeri (Møller, 1842)
  • Colus kroyeri (Møller, 1842) ·
  • Fusus arcticus Philippi, 1850
  • Fusus kroeyeri Møller, 1842 (basionym)
  • Fusus kroeyeri var. grossestriata Aurivillius, 1885
  • Fusus kroeyeri var. major Mörch, 1869
  • Fusus kroeyeri var. pumila Mörch, 1869
  • Plicifusus arcticus (Philippi, 1850)
  • Plicifusus obtustatus Golikov, in Golikov & Scarlato, 1985
  • Plicifusus polypleuratus (Dall, 1907)
  • Sipho plicatus A. Adams, 1863
  • Tritonofusus polypleuratus Dall, 1907

Description

Distribution

Northern Pacific Ocean.
Trawled at 300-350 m. depth, off Hokkaido, Japan.

References
  1. Plicifusus kroeyeri (Möller, 1842) ). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 March 2012.
  • Brunel, P., L. Bosse, and G. Lamarche. 1998. Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225–383
  • Kosyan A.R. & Kantor Y.I. (2012) Revision of the genus Plicifusus Dall, 1902 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae). Ruthenica 22(2): 55–92


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