Antimelatoma

Antimelatoma
A shell of Antimelatoma buchanani maorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Antimelatoma Powell, 1942
Type species
Drillia maorum E.A. Smith, 1877
Species
See text

Antimelatoma is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Antimelatoma include:

• Antimelatoma buchanani (Hutton, 1873)
• † Antimelatoma waimea Beu, 2011

Species brought into synonymy

• Antimelatoma agasma Cotton, 1947: synonym of Splendrillia woodsi (Beddome, 1883)
• Antimelatoma ahipara Powell A. W. B, 1942: synonym of Antimelatoma buchanani (Hutton, 1873)
• Antimelatoma benthicola Powell A. W. B, 1942: synonym of Antimelatoma buchanani (Hutton, 1873)
• Antimelatoma canyonensis Dell, 1956: synonym of Leucosyrinx canyonensis (Dell, 1956)

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN:0-00-216906-1

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf. 
• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308

Wikidata ☰ Q3172588 entry

0.00 (0 votes) Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimelatoma. Read more