Aeneator (gastropod)

Aeneator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Aeneator
Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent, 11.04–0.0 Ma
An apertural view of a shell of Aeneator marshalli separabilis
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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

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]


Antarctoneptunea

Kelletia

Penion

Aeneator

Buccinulum

Cladogram for Aeneator and related genera.[6]

Species

Species in the genus Aeneator include:

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

  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.
  2. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  3. Beu, Alan G.; Maxwell, P.A. (1990). "Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand". New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin. Lower Hutt, New Zealand: New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 58. ISSN 0114-2283.
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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.

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