MolluscaBase name details
Fusus patagonicus G. B. Sowerby I, 1846 †
1439510 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1439510)
unaccepted > junior homonym (junior secondary homonym of Murex patagonicus d’Orbigny, 1839; placed in Trophon by Pastorino 2005)
Species
Fusus Bruguière, 1789 accepted as Fusinus Rafinesque, 1815
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Sowerby, G. B. I. (1846). Appendix to part II. Descriptions of Tertiary fossil shells from South America. In: Darwin, C. Geological Observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. Smith, Elder & Co., London. pp 249-264, pls 2-5. , available online at http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F273&viewtype=text&pageseq=1
page(s): 259, pl. 4, fig. 60 [details]
page(s): 259, pl. 4, fig. 60 [details]
Lectotype NHMUK NHM-G26415, geounit Argentina
Lectotype NHMUK NHM-G26415, geounit Argentina [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Fusus patagonicus G. B. Sowerby I, 1846 †. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1439510 on 2025-09-11
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
original description
Sowerby, G. B. I. (1846). Appendix to part II. Descriptions of Tertiary fossil shells from South America. In: Darwin, C. Geological Observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. Smith, Elder & Co., London. pp 249-264, pls 2-5. , available online at http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F273&viewtype=text&pageseq=1
page(s): 259, pl. 4, fig. 60 [details]
basis of record Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2189: 1–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 [details]
additional source Griffin, M.; Nielsen, S. N. (2008). A revision of the type specimens of Tertiary molluscs from Chile and Argentina described by d'Orbigny (1842), Sowerby (1846) and Hupé (1854). <em>Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.</em> 6(3): 251-316., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1477201907002374
page(s): 302, pl. 22, fig. 14-15 [details] Available for editors
[request]
page(s): 259, pl. 4, fig. 60 [details]
basis of record Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2189: 1–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 [details]
additional source Griffin, M.; Nielsen, S. N. (2008). A revision of the type specimens of Tertiary molluscs from Chile and Argentina described by d'Orbigny (1842), Sowerby (1846) and Hupé (1854). <em>Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.</em> 6(3): 251-316., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1477201907002374
page(s): 302, pl. 22, fig. 14-15 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Lectotype NHMUK NHM-G26415, geounit Argentina [details]
