Fusininae Wrigley, 1927

Lyons, William G. & Snyder, Martin Avery, 2019, Fasciolariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) of French Guiana and nearby regions, with descriptions of two new species and comments on marine zoogeography of northeastern South America, Zootaxa 4585 (2), pp. 239-268 : 244

Subfamily Fusininae Wrigley, 1927

Until recently the genus Fusinus s.l. was used as a catch-all category to contain several hundred living and fossil species of Fusininae . According to Vermeij & Snyder (2018), 13 new genera have been introduced between 2003 and 2018 to accommodate many of the more atypical species previously placed in Fusinus , and most recently Vermeij & Snyder (2018) introduced ten more genera to bring more precise organization to many of the larger species that still remained in Fusinus s.l. However, although Vermeij & Snyder assigned many species among Fusinus s.s. and their genera, many other speciess were not dealt with and must remain in Fusinus s.l. until such time that this is done. Three Guianan species formerly placed in Fusinus were reclassified by Vermeij & Snyder in their new genera Lyonsifusus and Aristofusus . We retain other Guianan species not reclassified by Vermeij & Snyder in the genus Fusinus s.l.

Two other new genera of Vermeij and Snyder containing species mentioned in the following accounts are Africofusus (type species Fusus ocellifer Lamarck, 1816 ) and Goniofusus (type species Fusus dupetitthouarsi Kiener, 1840 ).