Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Buccinoidea > Family Buccinidae > Subfamily Buccinidae incertae sedis > Genus Plicifusus

Plicifusus kroyeri (Møller, 1842)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Fusus Bruguière, 1789

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Plicifusus*	Dall, 1902	accepted genus name
*Tritonofusus (Plicifusus)*	Dall, 1902	synonym

Species group names

*Colus kroeyeri*	(Møller, 1842)	synonym
*Fusus arcticus*	R. A. Philippi, 1850	synonym
*Fusus kroyeri var. major*	Mörch, 1869	synonym
*Fusus kroyeri var. pumila*	Mörch, 1869	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Arctic whelk sources: Volvenko, I. V.; Orlov, A. M.; Gebruk, A. V.; Katugin, O. N.; Ogorodnikova, A. A.; Vinogradov, G. M.; Maznikova, O. A. (2019). Checklist of the trawl macrofauna from the North Pacific and adjacent seas with information about fishery importance, potential product yield, and price range, supplement to: Volvenko, Igor V; Orlov, Alexei M; Gebruk, Andrey V; Katugin, Oleg N; Ogorodnikova, Alla A; Vinogradov, Georgy M; Maznikova, Olga A (in prep.): Trawl macrofauna of the Far-Eastern Seas and North Pacific: proportion of commercial species, potential product yield, and price rang. Earth System Science Data. PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science.

Russian: Плицифузус Кроера

Literature

basis of record	Kosyan, A. R.; Kantor, Y. I. (2012). Revision of the genus Plicifusus Dall Gastropoda: Buccinidae). Ruthenica. 22(1): 55-92.
additional source	Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225-383.
additional source	Abbott, R. T. & Dance, S. P. (1986). Compendium of sea shells. American Malacologists, Inc: Melbourne, Florida.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Plicifusus kroyeri (Møller, 1842). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:491269

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Environment

marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

EU Habitat Directive:
annex II EU Habitat Directive Annex II: Species of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation.

EU Habitat Directive Annex II: Species of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation.

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2020-05-16 by Philippe Bouchet

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