Antimelatoma
| Antimelatoma | |
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| A shell of Antimelatoma buchanani maorum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Subfamily: | Cochlespirinae |
| Genus: | Antimelatoma Powell, 1942 |
| Type species | |
| Drillia maorum E.A. Smith, 1877 | |
| Species | |
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Antimelatoma is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turridae, the turrids.
Species
Species within the genus Antimelatoma include:
- Antimelatoma buchanani (Hutton, 1873)
- Antimelatoma buchanani maorum (E. A. Smith, 1877)
- Antimelatoma maoria Dell, 1995
- Species brought into synonymy
- Antimelatoma ahipara Powell A. W. B, 1942: synonym of Antimelatoma buchanani (Hutton, 1873)
- Antimelatoma benthicola Powell A. W. B, 1942: synonym of Antimelatoma buchanani (Hutton, 1873)
- Antimelatoma canyonensis Dell, 1956: synonym of Leucosyrinx canyonensis (Dell, 1956)
References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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