Aeneator (gastropod)

Aeneator Temporal range: Upper Miocene to Recent

Aeneator marshalli separabilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Buccinidae
Genus:	Aeneator Finlay, 1927^[1]
Species
See text.

Aeneator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. Most species of this genus can be found around New Zealand, Chile and Antarctica.

Species

Species in the genus Aeneator include:

Aeneator attenuatus Powell, 1927
Aeneator benthicola Dell, 1963
Aenator castellai F. S. Mclean & Andrade, 1982
Aeneator comptus (Finlay, 1924)
Aeneator elegans (Suter, 1917)
Aenator fontainei d'Orbigny, 1841
Aeneator galatheae Powell, 1958
Aenator loisae Rehder, 1971
†Aenator marshalli R. Murdoch, 1924
- Aeneator marshalli separabilis Dell, 1956
Aeneator otagoensis Finlay, 1930
Aeneator recens (Dell, 1951)
Aeneator valedictus (Watson, 1886)

^ Finlay H. J. (1927). "A Further Commentary on New Zealand Molluscan Systematics". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 57: 320-485. page 414.