Aeneator (gastropod)
| Aeneator Temporal range: Upper Miocene to Recent | |
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| An apertural view of a shell of Aeneator marshalli separabilis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Buccinidae |
| Genus: | Aeneator Finlay, 1927[1] |
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Aeneator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. Most species of this genus are found around New Zealand, Chile and Antarctica.
Species
Species in the genus Aeneator include:
- Aeneator attenuatus Powell, 1927
- Aeneator benthicolus Dell, 1963
- Aenator castillai F. S. Mclean & Andrade, 1982
- Aeneator comptus (Finlay, 1924)
- Aeneator elegans (Suter, 1917)
- Aenator fontainei d'Orbigny, 1841
- Aeneator galatheae Powell, 1958
- Aenator loisae Rehder, 1971
- †Aenator marshalli R. Murdoch, 1924
- Aeneator martae Araya, 2013 [2]
- Aeneator otagoensis Finlay, 1930
- Aeneator portentosus Fraussen & Sellanes, 2008
- Aeneator prognaviter Fraussen & Sellanes, 2008
- Aeneator recens (Dell, 1951)
- Aeneator valedictus (Watson, 1886)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Aeneator benthicola [sic]: synonym of Aeneator benthicolus Dell, 1963
- 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.
- ↑ 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
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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