Aeneator (gastropod)

Aeneator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the whelk family Tudiclidae.^[2]

Aeneator Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent, 11.04–0.0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
An apertural view of a shell of Aeneator marshalli separabilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Tudiclidae
Genus:	Aeneator Finlay, 1927[1]
Type species
† Verconella marshalli Murdoch, 1924
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Aenator [sic] (misspelling) Aeneator (Aeneator) Finlay, 1926 · accepted, alternate representation Aeneator (Ellicea) Finlay, 1928 · accepted, alternate representation Ellicea Finlay, 1928

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]

Cladogram of Austrosiphonidae and Tudiclidae[7][2][8][9] Antarctoneptunea Kelletia Penion Serratifusus Aeneator Buccinulum Euthria Tasmeuthria

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 marshalli separabilis (Dell, 1956)
• 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)