| Aeneator Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent, | |
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| 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 marshalliMurdoch, 1924 | |
| Species | |
See text. | |
| Synonyms | |
Aeneator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the whelk family Tudiclidae. [2]
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]
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]
Aeneator is closely related to the genus Buccinulum . [7]
| Cladogram of Austrosiphonidae and Tudiclidae [7] [2] [8] [9] |
Species in the genus Aeneator include:
Conoidea is a superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the suborder Hypsogastropoda. This superfamily is a very large group of marine mollusks, estimated at about 340 recent valid genera and subgenera, and considered by one authority to contain 4,000 named living species.
The Buccinidae are a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks.
Alcithoe is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
Spectamen is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Solariellidae within the superfamily Trochoidea.
Penion is a genus of large marine snails, commonly known as siphon whelks, classified within the mollusc family Austrosiphonidae.
Xymene is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the rock snails, found in New Zealand.
Antarctoneptunea benthicola is a species of small-to-medium-sized predatory sea snail or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Austrosiphonidae.
Penion chathamensis is a species of very large predatory sea snail or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Austrosiphonidae.
Cominella is a genus of carnivorous sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cominellidae.
Buccinulum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the whelk family Tudiclidae.
Aeneator benthicolus is a species of large sea snail, a whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tudiclidae..
Austrotriton is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cymatiidae.
Sassia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cymatiidae.
Marshallena is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Marshallenidae.
Antarctoneptunea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the whelk family Austrosiphonidae.
Serratifusus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the whelk family Austrosiphonidae.
Austrofusus is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or whelks, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Penion proavitus is an extinct species of marine snail or whelk, belonging to the true whelk family Austrosiphonidae.
Maurea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the family Calliostomatidae within the superfamily Trochoidea, the top snails, turban snails and their allies.
The Tudiclidae are taxonomic family in the superfamily Buccinoidea of large sea snails, often known as whelks and the like.