Afer (gastropod)

Afer
Shell of Afer pseudofusinus (holotype in MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Tudiclidae
Genus:	Afer Conrad, 1858
Type species
Murex afer Gmelin, 1791
Species
See text
Synonyms
Afer (Streptosiphon) Gill, 1867 · Fusus (Afer) Conrad, 1858 (original rank) Streptosiphon Gill, 1867

Afer is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tudiclidae.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Afer include:

• Afer afer (Gmelin, 1791)
• Afer cumingii (Reeve, 1848)
• Afer echinatus Fraussen, 2008[2]
• Afer ignifer Fraussen & Trencart, 2008[3]
• Afer lansbergisi Delsaerdt, 1993
• † Afer macrospira (Cossmann, 1903)
• † Afer orangensis (Beets, 1942)
• Afer porphyrostoma (Reeve, 1847)
• Afer pseudofusinus Fraussen & Hadorn, 2000
• Afer trauseli Thach, 2023
• † Afer uhli Traub, 1979

Species brought into synonymy

• Afer africanus (Sowerby III, 1897): synonym of Africofusus africanus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1897) (superseded combination)
• Afer chinensis MacNeil, 1960: synonym of Siphonofusus chinensis (MacNeil, 1960)
• † Afer wanneri (Beets, 1942): synonym of † Euthria wanneri (Beets, 1942)

References

1. Afer Conrad, 1858. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 December 2010.
2. Afer echinatus Fraussen, 2008. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
3. Afer ignifer Fraussen & Trencart, 2008. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

External links

• Conrad T.A. (1858). Observations of a group of Cretaceous fossil shells, found in Tippah County, Mississippi, with descriptions of fifty-six new species. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. ser. 2, 3: 323-336, pls 34-35
• Gill, T. (1867). On the genus Fulgur and its allies. American Journal of Conchology. 3: 141-152