WoRMS name details
Fusus spitzbergensis Reeve, 1855
494279 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:494279)
                     unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
                    
                        
                
                    Species
                    
                        
                
                    Fusus Bruguière, 1789 accepted as Fusinus Rafinesque, 1815
                    
                        
                
                    
                marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
                    
            
            
                                                                    
            
                    
                
Reeve, L. A. (1855). Account of the shells collected by Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., North of Beechey Island, pp. 392–399, pls. 32–33, In: E. Belcher, <i>The last of the Arctic voyages: being a narrative of the expedition in H.M.S. Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852–53–54: with notes on the natural history.</i> Lovell Reeve, London. 2 volumes. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1360228
page(s): 395, pl. 32 figs 6a-b [details]
                    
            
            
                                                                    
            page(s): 395, pl. 32 figs 6a-b [details]
                    
                MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Fusus spitzbergensis Reeve, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=494279 on 2025-11-04
                    
            
            
                                                
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Nomenclature
original description
Reeve, L. A. (1855). Account of the shells collected by Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., North of Beechey Island, pp. 392–399, pls. 32–33, In: E. Belcher, <i>The last of the Arctic voyages: being a narrative of the expedition in H.M.S. Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852–53–54: with notes on the natural history.</i> Lovell Reeve, London. 2 volumes. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1360228
page(s): 395, pl. 32 figs 6a-b [details]
page(s): 395, pl. 32 figs 6a-b [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Bouchet, P. & Warén, A. (1985). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). <em>Bollettino Malacologico.</em> supplement 1: 121-296., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/140763 [details] 
source of synonymy Kosyan A.R. & Kantor Yu.I. (2013). Revision of the genus <i>Aulacofusus</i> Dall, 1918 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae). <em>Ruthenica: The Russian Malacological Journal.</em> 23(1): 1-33. [Published online 5 April 2013]. [details]
                    source of synonymy Kosyan A.R. & Kantor Yu.I. (2013). Revision of the genus <i>Aulacofusus</i> Dall, 1918 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae). <em>Ruthenica: The Russian Malacological Journal.</em> 23(1): 1-33. [Published online 5 April 2013]. [details]