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Barbarofusus

genus of gastropods

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ39046489 ↗
Source-derived summary

Barbarofusus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.

Species

Species within the genus Barbarofusus include:

† Barbarofusus barbarensis (Trask, 1855)

Barbarofusus guadalupensis Callomon & Snyder, 2017

Barbarofusus kobelti (Dall, 1877)

Species brought into synonymy

Barbarofusus chocolatus Okutani, 1983: synonym of Fusinus chocolatus (Okutani, 1983)

References

External links

Snyder M.A. (2003). Catalogue of the marine gastropod family Fasciolariidae. Academy of Natural Sciences. of Philadelphia, Special Publication.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Barbarofusus” as genus of gastropods. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Barbarofusus, genus and gastropods.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1855, 2017, 1877, 1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Barbarofusus, genus and gastropods providing the first useful test.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q39046489. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1855, 2017, 1877 and 1983.

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This entry incorporates text from “Barbarofusus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.