''Propefusus novaehollandiae'' is a

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of large

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, a

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in the

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Fasciolariidae The Fasciolariidae, common name the "tulip snails and spindle snails", are a family (biology), family of small to large sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Buccinoidea. The family Fasciolariidae probably appe ...

, the spindle snails and tulip snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Propefusus novaehollandiae (Reeve, 1848). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1319813 on 2020-12-03

References

* Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 * Vermeij G.J. & Snyder M.A. (2018). Proposed genus-level classification of large species of Fusininae (Gastropoda, Fasciolariidae). Basteria. 82(4-6): 57-82

External links

Reeve L.A. (1847-1848). Monograph of the genus Fusus. In: Conchologia Iconica, vol. 4, pls 1-21 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.
novaehollandiae Gastropods of Australia Molluscs of the Pacific Ocean Gastropods described in 1848 Taxa named by Lovell Augustus Reeve {{Fasciolariidae-stub