Austrotoma
| Austrotoma | |
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| Austrotoma minor | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Austrotoma Finlay, 1924 |
| Type species | |
| † Bathytoma excavata Suter, 1917 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Austrotoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1] It has also been placed in the family Pseudotomidae.[2][3]
Distribution
Fossils have been found in Miocene strata in Argentina and New Zealand, Oligocene strata in New Zealand and Eocene strata in Antarctica. [4]
Species
Species within the genus Austrotoma include the following. All are extinct except Austrotoma aguayoi.
- Austrotoma aguayoi (Carcelles, 1953)
- †Austrotoma ampla A. W. B. Powell, 1942
- †Austrotoma antarctica Karczewski, 1985
- †Austrotoma clifdenica A. W. B. Powell, 1942
- †Austrotoma cryptoconoidea A. W. B. Powell, 1942
- †Austrotoma deducta Marwick, 1931
- †Austrotoma echinata A. W. B. Powell, 1942
- †Austrotoma echinulata (Hupé, 1854)
- †Austrotoma excavata (Suter, 1917)
- †Austrotoma eximia (Suter, 1917)
- †Austrotoma finlayi A. W. B. Powell, 1938
- †Austrotoma gemmulata A. W. B. Powell, 1942
- †Austrotoma gracilicostata (Zittel, 1865)
- †Austrotoma hurupiensis Dell, 1952
- †Austrotoma inaequabilis Marwick, 1929
- †Austrotoma indiscreta H. J. Finlay & Marwick, 1937
- †Austrotoma inexpectata A. W. B. Powell, 1944
- †Austrotoma intertexta (A. W. B. Powell, 1944)
- †Austrotoma janjukiensis A. W. B. Powell, 1944
- †Austrotoma kaiparaensis A. W. B. Powell, 1942
- †Austrotoma lawsi A. W. B. Powell, 1942
- †Austrotoma minor (H. J. Finlay, 1924)
- †Austrotoma molinei Marwick, 1931
- †Austrotoma neozelanica (Suter, 1913)
- †Austrotoma nervosa A. W. B. Powell, 1942
- †Austrotoma obsoleta H. J. Finlay, 1926
- †Austrotoma prolixa Laws, 1940
- †Austrotoma suteri (Cossmann, 1916)
- †Austrotoma toreuma Marwick, 1929
- †Austrotoma ventricosa Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992
- Species brought into synonymy
- † Austrotoma adelaidensis (A. W. B. Powell, 1944): synonym of † Liratomina adelaidensis A. W. B. Powell, 1944 (superseded combination)
- † Austrotoma crassilirata (Tate, 1888): synonym of † Liratomina crassilirata (Tate, 1888) (superseded combination)
- † Austrotoma oliveroi Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992 : synonym of † Marshallaria oliveroi (Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992)
- † Austrotoma scopalveus Finlay, 1926: synonym of † Austrotoma minor (Finlay, 1924)
- † Austrotoma sculptilis (Tate, 1888): synonym of † Liratomina sculptilis (Tate, 1888) (superseded combination)
- † Austrotoma singularis (Ludbrook, 1978): synonym of † Epideira singularis (Ludbrook, 1978) (superseded combination)
References
- ↑ Sánchez, Noelia Carolina (2022). Estudio Taxonómico de los Gasterópodos de la Superfamilia Conoidea del Mar Argentino Basado en Caracteres Morfológicos y Moleculares (PDF) (Doctor en Ciencias Naturales thesis) (in Spanish). La Plata: Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Retrieved 2026-01-22.
- ↑ Austrotoma H. J. Finlay, 1924. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 February 2026.
- ↑ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
- ↑ Paleobiodb.org: distribution
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