Genus of gastropods
Aeneator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the whelk family Tudiclidae.[2]
Description
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]
Distribution
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]
Evolution
Aeneator is closely related to the genus Buccinulum.[7]
Species
Species in the genus Aeneator include:
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator antorbitus (Fleming, 1955)[4]
- Aeneator attenuatus (Powell, 1927)[3]
- Aeneator benthicolus (Dell, 1963)[3]
- Aeneator castillai (H. S. Mclean & Andrade, 1982)[5]
- Aeneator comptus (Finlay, 1924)[3]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator conformatus (Marwick, 1931)[4]
- † Aeneator delicatulus (Powell, 1929)[4]
- Aeneator elegans (Suter, 1917)[3]
- Aenator fontainei (d'Orbigny, 1841)[5]
- Aeneator galatheae (Powell, 1958)[3]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator henchmani (Marwick, 1926)[4]
- † Aeneator huttoni (Finlay, 1930)[4]
- Aeneator loisae (Rehder, 1971)[5]
- † Aeneator marshalli marshalli (R. Murdoch, 1924)[4]
- Aeneator martae (Araya, 2013)[5]
- † Aeneator nothopanax (Fleming, 1954)[4]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator orbitus (Hutton, 1885)[4]
- Aeneator otagoensis (Finlay, 1930)[3]
- Aeneator portentosus (Fraussen & Sellanes, 2008)[5]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator perobtusus (Fleming, 1943)[4]
- † Aeneator problematicus (Fleming, 1943)[4]
- Aeneator prognaviter (Fraussen & Sellanes, 2008)[5]
- Aeneator recens (Dell, 1951)[3]
- † Aeneator thomsoni (Marwick, 1924)[4]
- † Aeneator valedictus (Watson, 1886)[3]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator validus (Marwick, 1928)[4]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator wairoanus (Marwick, 1965)[4]
- † (Ellicea) Aeneator willetti (Fleming, 1955)[4]
- Species brought into synonymy
- Aeneator benthicola [sic]: synonym of Aeneator benthicolus Dell, 1963
- † Aeneator huttoni Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992: synonym of † Prosipho stilwelli Beu, 2009
- Aeneator valedicta [sic] : synonym of Aeneator valedictus (Watson, 1886)