Antimelatoma buchanani

Antimelatoma buchanani is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Antimelatoma buchanani
A shell of Antimelatoma buchanani maorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Antimelatoma
Species:
A. buchanani
Binomial name
Antimelatoma buchanani
(Hutton, 1873)
Synonyms[1]
  • Antimelatoma ahiparana Powell, 1942
  • Antimelatoma benthicola Powell, 1942
  • Antimelatoma buchanani maorum (E.A. Smith, 1877)
  • Drillia maorum E.A. Smith, 1877
  • Pleurotoma buchanani F.W. Hutton, 1873 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 20 mm, its diameter 6 mm.

(Original description) The fusiform shell is elongated. The spire is acute. The whorls are carinated, with fine spiral lines, and obliquely plicated anteriorly. The posterior part is smooth, concave, with a slight ridge at the suture. The aperture is oval. The siphonal canal produced. The body whorl is longer than the spire.[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off Northland to East Cape

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2011). Antimelatoma buchanani (Hutton, 1873). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578787 on 2012-01-14
  2. Hutton F. W. 1873. Catalogue of the Tertiary Mollusca and Echinodermata of New Zealand, in the collection of the Colonial Museum. Didsbury, Government Printer, Wellington. xvi + 48 pp
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Morley, M.S. Nov/1980: Oneroa, Waiheke Island, Poirieria, 10(6) (p. 99)
  • Beu, A.G. 2011: Marine Mollusca of isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia), Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 41
  • Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
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