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A dorsal view of a shell of Austrofusus glans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Buccinidae
Genus:	Austrofusus
Species:	A. glans
Binomial name
*Austrofusus glans* (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms
Aethocola glans (Röding, 1798) Austrofusus (Austrofusus) glans (Röding, 1798)· accepted, alternate representation Austrofusus glans agrestior Finlay, 1927 Austrofusus glans tragulatus Iredale, 1937 Buccinum nodosum Martyn, 1784 Buccinum triton Lesson, 1841 Drupa glans Röding, 1798 (original combination) Fusus nodosus Gray, 1843 Fusus raphanus Lamarck, 1816 Siphonalia nodosa (Martyn, 1784)

Austrofusus glans is a species of medium-sized sea snail or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Description

Austrofusus glans is a medium-sized species of buccinid whelk. The species occurs in shallow, subtidal depths down to at least 600 metres on sandy or soft-bottom sediments.

Distribution

The species is endemic to New Zealand.

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