Fusinus aepynotus

Species of gastropod

Fusinus aepynotus

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Family:  | Fasciolariidae
Genus:  | Fusinus
Species:  |

F. aepynotus

Binomial name
Fusinus aepynotus

(Dall, 1889)

Synonyms

* Fusus aepynotus Dall, 1889[1]
* Harasewychia aepynotus (Dall, 1889)

Fusinus aepynotus, known as the graceful spindle, is a species of small sea snail native to the Gulf of Mexico and southern Florida.

## Taxonomy

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The first specimens of Fusinus aepynotus known to science were dredged by the United States Coast Survey steamer Blake between 1877 and 1878. William Healey Dall, who had been tasked with describing the mollusk collection of the Blake, named F. aepynotus in 1889 as one of several new species of Fusus from the collection.[2] In 1904, Amadeus W. Grabau suggested that several species of Fusus collected by the Blake, including F. aepynotus, probably should be assigned to new genera, and that they may be descendants of the fossil genus Falsifusus.[3] Due to historical nomenclatural confusion that was not fully resolved by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature until 1994, the genus Fusus was eventually replaced by Fusinus.[4] In 1987, Petuch proposed classifying F. aepynotus in Harasewychia, but in 2000, Hadorn and Rogers disputed this classification and returned the species to Fusinus.[5] Hadorn and Rogers also recognized that two of the shells that Dall had assigned to F. aepynotus represented a distinct species, which they named Fusinus thompsoni.[6] In 2018, Vermeij and Snyder revised the taxonomy of large species of Fusinus, which they restricted to a group species from the Indo–West Pacific region. F. aepynotus was not one of the species they listed as belonging to their restricted concept of Fusinus.[7] In 2019, Lyons and Snyder considered the species not addressed by Vermeij and Snyder to be retained in Fusinus sensu lato until they could be reclassified.[8] Fusinus aepynotus belongs to Fusininae, a subfamily of Fasciolariidae.[1] F. aepynotus has the common name of "graceful spindle".[9]

## Description

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Fusinus aepynotus is a relatively small species, with a maximum known shell length of 24 millimetres (0.94 in).[6]

## Ecology

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Like other fasciolariids, Fusinus aepynotus is a benthic carnivore.[10] Its range includes the Gulf of Mexico, the Florida Keys, and southeastern Florida. It is found at depths between 37 and 366 meters.[10] It is a common species.[11]

## Human significance

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Fusinus aepynotus is rarely collected by shell collectors, because of its small size.[11]

## References

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1. ^ a b Fusinus aepynotus (Dall, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
2. ^ Dall 1889, pp. 169–170.
3. ^ Grabau 1904, p. 75.
4. ^ International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1994.
5. ^ Hadorn & Rogers 2000, pp. 6–7.
6. ^ a b Hadorn & Rogers 2000, p. 7.
7. ^ Vermeij & Snyder 2018, p. 60.
8. ^ Lyons & Snyder 2019, p. 244.
9. ^ "Fusinus aepynotus, Graceful spindle". SeaLifeBase. Archived from the original on 25 June 2021.
10. ^ a b Rosenberg, Moretzsohn & García 2009, p. 653.
11. ^ a b Hadorn & Rogers 2000, p. 8.

### Works cited

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* Dall, W. H. (1889). "Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 18: 1–492.
* Grabau, Amadeus W. (1904). "Phylogeny of Fusus and its allies". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 44 (1417): 1–192.
* Hadorn, Roland; Rogers, Bud (2 May 2000). "Revision of recent Fusinus (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae) from tropical western Atlantic, with description of six new species". Argonauta. 14 (1): 5–57.
* International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1994). "Opinion 1765. Fusus Helbling, 1779 (Mollusca: Gastropoda): suppressed, and Fusinus Rafinesque, 1815 and Colubraria Schumacher, 1817: conserved". The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 51 (2): 159–161.
* Lyons, William G.; Snyder, Martin Avery (12 April 2019). "Fasciolariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) of French Guiana and nearby regions, with descriptions of two new species and comments on marine zoogeography of northeastern South America". Zootaxa. 4585 (2). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4585.2.2. eISSN 1175-5334. ISSN 1175-5326.
* Rosenberg, Gary; Moretzsohn, Fabio; García, Emilio F. (2009). "Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico". In Felder, Darryl L.; Camp, David K. (eds.). Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Vol. 1\. Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press. pp. 579–699. ISBN 978-1-60344-094-3.
* Vermeij, Geerat J.; Snyder, Martin A. (30 December 2018). "Proposed genus-level classification of large species of Fusininae (Gastropoda, Fasciolariidae)". Basteria. 82 (4–6): 57–82.

Taxon identifiers

Fusinus aepynotus|

* Wikidata: Q3170241
* ADW: Fusinus_aepynotus
* CoL: 6K62V
* GBIF: 2303973
* iNaturalist: 254823
* IRMNG: 11007185
* ITIS: 74209
* Observation.org: 942266
* OBIS: 420025
* Open Tree of Life: 2898207
* SeaLifeBase: 5263
* uBio: 503254
* WoRMS: 420025

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