Aeneator (gastropod)
| Aeneator Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent, 11.04–0.0 Ma | |
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| An apertural view of a shell of Aeneator marshalli separabilis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Buccinidae |
| Genus: | Aeneator Finlay, 1927[1] |
| Type species | |
| † Verconella marshalli Murdoch, 1924 | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
Aeneator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Description
Most extant species of Aeneator are found around New Zealand,[2] Chile,[3] and Antarctica.[4] Numerous fossil species are also described from New Zealand.[5] Large shells and fossils of Aeneator can sometimes be confused with those of Penion.[5]
Species
Species in the genus Aeneator include:
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator antorbitus (Fleming, 1955)[5]
- Aeneator attenuatus (Powell, 1927)[2]
- Aeneator benthicolus (Dell, 1963)[2]
- Aeneator castillai (H. S. Mclean & Andrade, 1982)[3]
- Aeneator comptus (Finlay, 1924)[2]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator conformatus (Marwick, 1931)[5]
- † Aeneator delicatulus (Powell, 1929)[5]
- Aeneator elegans (Suter, 1917)[2]
- Aenator fontainei (d'Orbigny, 1841)[3]
- Aeneator galatheae (Powell, 1958)[2]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator henchmani (Marwick, 1926)[5]
- † Aeneator huttoni (Finlay, 1930)[5]
- Aeneator loisae (Rehder, 1971)[3]
- † Aeneator marshalli marshalli (R. Murdoch, 1924)[5]
- Aeneator marshalli separabilis (Dell, 1956)
- Aeneator martae (Araya, 2013)[3]
- † Aeneator nothopanax (Fleming, 1954)[5]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator orbitus (Hutton, 1885)[5]
- Aeneator otagoensis (Finlay, 1930)[2]
- Aeneator portentosus (Fraussen & Sellanes, 2008)[3]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator perobtusus (Fleming, 1943)[5]
- † Aeneator problematicus (Fleming, 1943)[5]
- Aeneator prognaviter (Fraussen & Sellanes, 2008)[3]
- Aeneator recens (Dell, 1951)[2]
- † Aeneator thomsoni (Marwick, 1924)[5]
- † Aeneator valedictus (Watson, 1886)[2]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator validus (Marwick, 1928)[5]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator wairoanus (Marwick, 1965)[5]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator willetti (Fleming, 1955)[5]
- Species brought into synonymy
- Aeneator benthicola [sic]: synonym of Aeneator benthicolus Dell, 1963
- † Aeneator huttoni Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992: synonym of † Prosipho stilwelli Beu, 2009
- Aeneator valedicta [sic] : synonym of Aeneator valedictus (Watson, 1886)
References
- ↑ Finlay H. J. (1927). "A Further Commentary on New Zealand Molluscan Systematics". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 57: 320-485. page 414.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Juan Francisco Araya, A new species of Aeneator Finlay, 1926 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Buccinidae) from northern Chile, with comments on the genus and a key to the Chilean species; ZooKeys 257: 89–101, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.257.4446
- ↑ Stilwell, J.D., Zinsmeister, W.J. 1992. Molluscan systematics and biostratigraphy, lower Tertiary La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. American Geophysical Union Antarctica Research Series 55: 126-128. DOI: 10.1029/AR055 ISBN 9781118667705
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Beu, A.G. and Maxwell, P.A. 1990. Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin, 58.
External links
- World Register of Marine Species: Aeneator Finlay, 1926
- Fossilworks Database Aeneator Finlay 1926 (true whelk)
- Revised descriptions of New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca from Beu and Maxwell (1990)
- Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
Further reading
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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