Aeneator (gastropod)

Aeneator Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent, 11.04–0.0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
An apertural view of a shell of Aeneator marshalli separabilis
Scientific 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 genus of sea snails, marine gastropod 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] Antarctoneptunea Kelletia Penion Serratifusus Aeneator Buccinulum Euthria Tasmeuthria

Species

Species in the genus Aeneator include:

• † (Ellicea) Aeneator antorbitus (Fleming, 1955)[4]
• Aeneator attenuatus (Powell, 1927)[3]
• Aeneator benthicolus (Dell, 1963)[3]
• Aeneator castillai (H. S. Mclean & Andrade, 1982)[5]
• Aeneator comptus (Finlay, 1924)[3]
• † (Ellicea) Aeneator conformatus (Marwick, 1931)[4]
• † Aeneator delicatulus (Powell, 1929)[4]
• Aeneator elegans (Suter, 1917)[3]
• Aenator fontainei (d'Orbigny, 1841)[5]
• Aeneator galatheae (Powell, 1958)[3]
• † (Ellicea) Aeneator henchmani (Marwick, 1926)[4]
• † Aeneator huttoni (Finlay, 1930)[4]
• Aeneator loisae (Rehder, 1971)[5]
• † Aeneator marshalli marshalli (R. Murdoch, 1924)[4]
  • Aeneator marshalli separabilis (Dell, 1956)
• Aeneator martae (Araya, 2013)[5]
• † Aeneator nothopanax (Fleming, 1954)[4]
• † (Ellicea) Aeneator orbitus (Hutton, 1885)[4]
• Aeneator otagoensis (Finlay, 1930)[3]
• Aeneator portentosus (Fraussen & Sellanes, 2008)[5]
• † (Ellicea) Aeneator perobtusus (Fleming, 1943)[4]
• † Aeneator problematicus (Fleming, 1943)[4]
• Aeneator prognaviter (Fraussen & Sellanes, 2008)[5]
• Aeneator recens (Dell, 1951)[3]
• † Aeneator thomsoni (Marwick, 1924)[4]
• † Aeneator valedictus (Watson, 1886)[3]
• † (Ellicea) Aeneator validus (Marwick, 1928)[4]
• † (Ellicea) Aeneator wairoanus (Marwick, 1965)[4]
• † (Ellicea) Aeneator willetti (Fleming, 1955)[4]

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. Kantor, Yuri I.; Fedosov, Alexander E.; Kosyan, Alisa R.; Puillandre, Nicolas; Sorokin, Pavel A.; Kano, Yasunori; Clark, Roger; Bouchet, Philippe (2022). "Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194 (3): 789–857. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031.
3. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
4. 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. Archived from the original on 2021-02-21. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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.
8. Vaux, Felix; Crampton, James S.C.; Trewick, Steven A.; Marshall, Bruce A.; Beu, Alan G.; Hills, Simon F.K.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2018). "Evolutionary lineages of marine snails identified using molecular phylogenetics and geometric morphometric analysis of shells". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 127 (October 2018): 626–637. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.009. PMID 29913310. S2CID 49303166.
9. 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.

External links

• Revised descriptions of New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca from Beu and Maxwell (1990) Archived 2021-01-27 at the Wayback Machine
• 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