Two new Fusinus (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Fasciolariidae) from Western Australia

Abstract

This paper describes two new Fusinus species in the neogastropod family Fasciolariidae: Fusinus wellsi n. sp. and Fusinus vercoi n. sp., both from Western Australia. Fusinus wellsi n. sp. is similar to Fusinus leptorhynchus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1875) from the Red Sea and Fusinus vercoi n. sp. is most similar to Fusinus tessellatus (G. B. Sowerby, II, 1880), also from Western Australia.