Antimelatoma buchanani

Antimelatoma buchanani
	A shell of Antimelatoma buchanani maorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Antimelatoma
Species:	A. buchanani
Binomial name
	Antimelatoma buchanani; (Hutton, 1873)
Synonyms
	Antimelatoma ahiparana Powell, 1942; Antimelatoma benthicola Powell, 1942; Antimelatoma buchanani maorum (E.A. Smith, 1877); Drillia maorum E.A. Smith, 1877; Pleurotoma buchanani F.W. Hutton, 1873 (original combination);

Antimelatoma buchanani is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae.^[1]

Description[]

The length of the shell attains 20 mm, its diameter 6 mm.

(Original description) The fusiform shell is elongated. The spire is acute. The whorls are carinated, with fine spiral lines, and obliquely plicated anteriorly. The posterior part is smooth, concave, with a slight ridge at the suture. The aperture is oval. The siphonal canal produced. The body whorl is longer than the spire.^[2]

Distribution[]

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off Northland to East Cape

References[]

^ ^a ^b Bouchet, P. (2011). Antimelatoma buchanani (Hutton, 1873). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578787 on 2012-01-14
^ Hutton F. W. 1873. Catalogue of the Tertiary Mollusca and Echinodermata of New Zealand, in the collection of the Colonial Museum. Didsbury, Government Printer, Wellington. xvi + 48 pp

Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
Morley, M.S. Nov/1980: Oneroa, Waiheke Island, Poirieria, 10(6) (p. 99)
Beu, A.G. 2011: Marine Mollusca of isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia), Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 41
Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch

External links[]

Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011) Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone

External links[]

Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone

[WoRMS-1] Bouchet, P. (2011). Antimelatoma buchanani (Hutton, 1873). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578787 on 2012-01-14

[2] Hutton F. W. 1873. Catalogue of the Tertiary Mollusca and Echinodermata of New Zealand, in the collection of the Colonial Museum. Didsbury, Government Printer, Wellington. xvi + 48 pp

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Antimelatoma buchanani

A shell of Antimelatoma buchanani maorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Antimelatoma
Species:	A. buchanani
Binomial name
*Antimelatoma buchanani* (Hutton, 1873)
Synonyms^[1]
Antimelatoma ahiparana Powell, 1942 Antimelatoma benthicola Powell, 1942 Antimelatoma buchanani maorum (E.A. Smith, 1877) Drillia maorum E.A. Smith, 1877 Pleurotoma buchanani F.W. Hutton, 1873 (original combination)