Aeneator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs belonging to the whelk family Tudiclidae.
Description Aeneator is a genus of small to medium sized marine snails.Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 Large shells and fossils of Aeneator can sometimes be confused with those of Penion.
Distribution Most extant species of Aeneator are found around New Zealand, Chile,Juan Francisco Araya, A new species of Aeneator Finlay, 1926 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Buccinidae) from northern Chile, with comments on the genus and a key to the Chilean species; ZooKeys 257: 89–101, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.257.4446 and Antarctica. Stilwell, J.D., Zinsmeister, W.J. 1992. Molluscan systematics and biostratigraphy, lower Tertiary La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. American Geophysical Union Antarctica Research Series 55: 126-128. DOI: 10.1029/AR055 Numerous fossil species are also described from New Zealand.
Evolution Aeneator is closely related to the genus Buccinulum.
Species Species in the genus Aeneator include:
† (Ellicea) Aeneator antorbitus (Fleming, 1955) Aeneator attenuatus (Powell, 1927) Aeneator benthicolus (Dell, 1963) Aeneator castillai (H. S. Mclean & Andrade, 1982) Aeneator comptus (Finlay, 1924) † (Ellicea) Aeneator conformatus (Marwick, 1931) † Aeneator delicatulus (Powell, 1929) Aeneator elegans (Suter, 1917) Aenator fontainei (d'Orbigny, 1841) Aeneator galatheae (Powell, 1958) † (Ellicea) Aeneator henchmani (Marwick, 1926) † Aeneator huttoni (Finlay, 1930) Aeneator loisae (Rehder, 1971) † Aeneator marshalli marshalli (R. Murdoch, 1924) Aeneator marshalli separabilis (Dell, 1956) Aeneator martae (Araya, 2013) † Aeneator nothopanax (Fleming, 1954) † (Ellicea) Aeneator orbitus (Hutton, 1885) Aeneator otagoensis (Finlay, 1930) Aeneator portentosus (Fraussen & Sellanes, 2008) † (Ellicea) Aeneator perobtusus (Fleming, 1943) † Aeneator problematicus (Fleming, 1943) Aeneator prognaviter (Fraussen & Sellanes, 2008) Aeneator recens (Dell, 1951) † Aeneator thomsoni (Marwick, 1924) † Aeneator valedictus (Watson, 1886) † (Ellicea) Aeneator validus (Marwick, 1928) † (Ellicea) Aeneator wairoanus (Marwick, 1965) † (Ellicea) Aeneator willetti (Fleming, 1955)
Species brought into synonymy Aeneator benthicola [sic]: synonym of Aeneator benthicolus Dell, 1963 † Aeneator contractus : synonym of † Penion haweraensis † Aeneator huttoni Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992: synonym of † Prosipho stilwelli Beu, 2009 Aeneator valedicta [sic] : synonym of Aeneator valedictus (Watson, 1886)
References
External links Revised descriptions of New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca from Beu and Maxwell (1990) Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
Further reading Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979