Antarctoneptunea Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent, | |
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Shell of Antarctoneptunea benthicola (specimen at the Auckland War Memorial Museum) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
Family: | Coccinellidae |
Genus: | Antarctoneptunea Dell, 1972 |
Antarctoneptunea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the whelk family Austrosiphonidae. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Antarctoneptunea marine snails occur in deep water surrounding New Zealand and in Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica, particularly in the Ross Sea. [2] [5] [3] [6]
Molecular phylogenetic trees based on mitochondrial genomic and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequence data indicate that Antarctoneptunea is closely related to the Northern Hemisphere genus Kelletia , and Penion siphon whelks found in waters surrounding New Zealand and Australia. [3] [6] [1] It has been suggested that some Antarctic fossil species of Penion are misclassified Antarctoneptunea. [7]
Cladogram of Austrosiphonidae and Tudiclidae [8] [1] [6] [9]
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Species within the genus Antarctoneptunea include: