Aeneator (gastropod)
| Aeneator Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent,
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Aeneator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Description
Aeneator is a genus of small to medium sized marine snails.[2][3] Large shells and fossils of Aeneator can sometimes be confused with those of Penion.[3]
Distribution
Most extant species of Aeneator are found around New Zealand,[2] Chile,[4] and Antarctica.[5] Numerous fossil species are also described from New Zealand.[3]
Evolution
Aeneator is closely related to the genus Buccinulum.[6]
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| Cladogram for Aeneator and related genera.[6] |
Species
Species in the genus Aeneator include:
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator antorbitus (Fleming, 1955)[3]
- Aeneator attenuatus (Powell, 1927)[2]
- Aeneator benthicolus (Dell, 1963)[2]
- Aeneator castillai (H. S. Mclean & Andrade, 1982)[4]
- Aeneator comptus (Finlay, 1924)[2]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator conformatus (Marwick, 1931)[3]
- † Aeneator delicatulus (Powell, 1929)[3]
- Aeneator elegans (Suter, 1917)[2]
- Aenator fontainei (d'Orbigny, 1841)[4]
- Aeneator galatheae (Powell, 1958)[2]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator henchmani (Marwick, 1926)[3]
- † Aeneator huttoni (Finlay, 1930)[3]
- Aeneator loisae (Rehder, 1971)[4]
- † Aeneator marshalli marshalli (R. Murdoch, 1924)[3]
- Aeneator marshalli separabilis (Dell, 1956)
- Aeneator martae (Araya, 2013)[4]
- † Aeneator nothopanax (Fleming, 1954)[3]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator orbitus (Hutton, 1885)[3]
- Aeneator otagoensis (Finlay, 1930)[2]
- Aeneator portentosus (Fraussen & Sellanes, 2008)[4]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator perobtusus (Fleming, 1943)[3]
- † Aeneator problematicus (Fleming, 1943)[3]
- Aeneator prognaviter (Fraussen & Sellanes, 2008)[4]
- Aeneator recens (Dell, 1951)[2]
- † Aeneator thomsoni (Marwick, 1924)[3]
- † Aeneator valedictus (Watson, 1886)[2]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator validus (Marwick, 1928)[3]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator wairoanus (Marwick, 1965)[3]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator willetti (Fleming, 1955)[3]
- 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Beu, Alan G.; Maxwell, P.A. (1990). "Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand". New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin. 58. Lower Hutt, New Zealand: New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. ISSN 0114-2283.
- ^ a b c d e f g 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
- ^ a b Vaux, Felix; Hills, Simon F.K.; Marshall, Bruce A.; Trewick, Steven A.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2017). "A phylogeny of Southern Hemisphere whelks (Gastropoda: Buccinulidae) and concordance with the fossil record". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 114 (2017): 367–381. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.018. PMID 28669812.
External links
- 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