Aeneator (gastropod)

Aeneator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs belonging to the whelk family Tudiclidae.

Description

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

Distribution

Most extant species of Aeneator are found around New Zealand, Chile, and Antarctica. Numerous fossil species are also described from New Zealand.

Evolution

Aeneator is closely related to the genus Buccinulum.

Species

Species in the genus Aeneator include:

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

Species brought into synonymy:

• Aeneator benthicola [sic]: synonym of Aeneator benthicolus <small>Dell, 1963</small>
• † Aeneator contractus : synonym of † Penion haweraensis
• † Aeneator huttoni <small>Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992</small>: synonym of † Prosipho stilwelli Beu, 2009
• Aeneator valedicta [sic] : synonym of Aeneator valedictus <small>(Watson, 1886)</small>

References

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