Antarctoneptunea aurora

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Antarctoneptunea aurora
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Coccinellidae
Genus: Antarctoneptunea
Species:
A. aurora
Binomial name
Antarctoneptunea aurora
(Hedley, 1916)
Synonyms [1]
  • Troschelia? Smith, 1907
  • Fusitriton aurora Hedley, 1916
  • Fusitriton antarcticus Powell, A.W.B., 1958

Antarctoneptunea aurora is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Austrosiphonidae. [2] [3] [4]

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Description

Antarctoneptunea aurora is a small to medium-sized buccinid whelk species. [1] [3] [5]

Distribution

Antarctoneptunea aurora occurs in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, particularly from the Ross Sea. [3] [5] Specimens have been collected from depths between 188 and 603 metres. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dell R.K., Antarctic Mollusca with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea, The Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 27.
  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. 1 2 3 Dell, Richard K. (1972). "A new genus of Antarctic buccinid gastropod". Records of the Dominion Museum. 8: 115–119.
  4. ↑ Antarctoneptunea aurora (Hedley, 1916) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 17 April 2010.
  5. 1 2 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.


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