''Austrofusus glans'' is a species of medium-sized sea snail or whelk, a

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gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...

in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979

Description

''Austrofusus glans'' is a medium-sized species of

buccinid The Buccinidae are a very large and diverse Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Buccinidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (201 ...

whelk. The species occurs in shallow, subtidal depths down to at least 600 metres on sandy or soft-bottom sediments.Willan, R.C., de C. Cook, S., Spencer, H.G., Creese, R.G., O’Shea, S., Jackson, G.D. Phylum Mollusca. In: de C. Cook, S.C. (eds.), ''New Zealand Coastal Marine Invertebrates 1'', 395 – 396. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand

Distribution

The species is endemic to New Zealand.

References

Buccinidae Gastropods of New Zealand Gastropods described in 1798 Taxa named by Peter Friedrich Röding {{Buccinidae-stub