Aeneator otagoensis

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Aeneator otagoensis
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Shell of Aeneator otagoensis (specimen at the Auckland War Memorial mUseum)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Tudiclidae
Genus: Aeneator
Species:
A. otagoensis
Binomial name
Aeneator otagoensis
Finlay, 1930 [1]
Synonyms

Aeneator otagoensis cookianus Dell, 1956

Aeneator otagoensis is a species of large sea snail, a whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tudiclidae. [2] .

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Distribution

New Zealand [3]

Description

Aeneator otagoensis was discovered and described by New Zealand malacologist Harold John Finlay in 1930. [1] Finlay's type description reads as follows:

Aeneator otagoensis n. sp.

Very close to A. marshalli (Murdoch) (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 55, p. 159, 1924), the genotype, from the Upper Pliocene of Castlecliff, and probably descended from it. Easily distinguished by fewer and stouter axials, 13 per whorl just before they die out, instead of about 18; interstices equal to or wider than ribs instead of narrower or sublinear. Spirals somewhat finer, less raised than in marshalli. Spire taller, considerably higher than aperture instead of subequal to it. Pillar considerably thicker.

Height, 55 mm.; of spire, 23 mm.; width, 24 mm.

Locality—22 fathoms, trawled between Otago Heads and Waikouwaiti, type and one other. Also two shells from 60 fathoms off Otago Heads, and one worn cast up shell, Taieri Beach.

Type in Finlay collection.

Perhaps all the Recent records of marshalli refer to this species.

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References

This article incorporates public domain text originating from the New Zealand from the reference. [1]

  1. 1 2 3 Finlay H. J. (23 August 1930). "Additions to the Recent Molluscan Fauna of New Zealand. No. 3." Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 61: 222-247. page 236. PDF.
  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 (1979). New Zealand Mollusca. William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN   0-00-216906-1.
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