Chryseofusus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Fusininae of the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.
Originally a subgenus of Fusinus, Chryseofusus was raised to the rank of genus by Callomon & Snyder, 2009 Paul Callomon, Martin Avery Snyder, On Some Fusinus from the East and South China Seas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae), with Description of a New Species, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 158(1):209-219. 2009
Species Species within the genus Chryseofusus include: Chryseofusus acherusius (Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003) Chryseofusus alisae (Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003) Chryseofusus alisonae (Hadorn, Snyder & Fraussen, 2008) Chryseofusus artutus (Fraussen & Hadorn, 2003) Chryseofusus bonaespei (Barnard, 1959) Chryseofusus bradneri (Drivas & Jay, 1990) Chryseofusus cadus (Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003) Chryseofusus chrysodomoides (Schepman, 1911) Chryseofusus dapsilis (Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003) Chryseofusus graciliformis (G.B. Sowerby II, 1880) Chryseofusus hyphalus (M. Smith, 1940) Chryseofusus jurgeni (Hadorn & Fraussen, 2002) Chryseofusus kazdailisi (Fraussen & Hadorn, 2000) Chryseofusus lecourtorum Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, 2014 Chryseofusus lorenzi Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, 2014 Chryseofusus riscus (Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003) Chryseofusus satsumaensis (Hadorn & Chino, 2005) Chryseofusus scissus (Fraussen & Hadorn, 2003) Chryseofusus subangulatus (Martens, 1901) Chryseofusus wareni (Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003) Chryseofusus westralis (Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003)
References
Hadorn R. & Fraussen K. (2003). The deep-water Indo-Pacific radiation of Fusinus (Chryseofusus subgen. nov.) (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae). Iberus 21(1):207-240 Fraussen K. & Stahlschmidt P. (2014). Two new Chryseofusus Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003 (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae) from the Nazareth Bank (Mascarene Plateau). Vita Malacologica. 12: 31–35. page(s): 32, pl. 2 figs 6a-e