Aeneator (gastropod)

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Aeneator
Temporal range: Late
Ma
An apertural view of a shell of Aeneator marshalli separabilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Tudiclidae
Genus: Aeneator
Finlay, 1927[1]
Type species
Verconella marshalli Murdoch, 1924
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Aenator [sic] (misspelling)
  • Aeneator (Aeneator) Finlay, 1926 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Aeneator (Ellicea)
    Finlay
    , 1928
    · accepted, alternate representation
  • Ellicea
    Finlay
    , 1928

Aeneator is a

molluscs in the whelk family Tudiclidae.[2]

Description

Aeneator is a genus of small to medium sized marine snails.[3][4] Large shells and fossils of Aeneator can sometimes be confused with those of Penion.[4]

Distribution

Most extant species of Aeneator are found around New Zealand,[3] Chile,[5] and Antarctica.[6] Numerous fossil species are also described from New Zealand.[4]

Evolution

Aeneator is closely related to the genus Buccinulum.[7]

Cladogram of Austrosiphonidae and Tudiclidae[7][2][8][9]

Species

Species in the genus Aeneator include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. 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.
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  5. ^ 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
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  8. ^ Hayashi, Seiji (2005). "The molecular phylogeny of the Buccinidae (Caenogastropoda: Neogastropoda) as inferred from the complete mitochondrial 16s rRNA gene sequences of selected representatives". Molluscan Research. 25: 85–98.

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