''Antimelatoma'' is a
genus
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of
predatory
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sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
marine gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusc
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s in the
family
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Pseudomelatomidae
Pseudomelatomidae is a family (biology), family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda (Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), Bouchet & Ro ...
, the turrids.
[MolluscaBase (2018). Antimelatoma Powell, 1942. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432396 on 2018-04-21]
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
External links
*
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
Pseudomelatomidae
Gastropods of New Zealand
Gastropod genera
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