Seven new genera and thirty-four new species of buccinoid gastropods (Neogastropoda: Buccinidae) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Author
Mclean, James H.
Author
Clark, Roger N.
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-09-26
5351
2
151
201
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5351.2.1
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.5351.2.1
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Subfamily
Parancistrolepidinae Habe, 1972
Diagnosis:
Shell with suture constricted; sculpture chiefly spiral; aperture short, lacking long anterior canal; siphonal notch U-shaped, base of lip projecting anteriorly in some genera. Early teleconch whorls dome shaped, apex not projecting. Operculum narrow to broad, convex, with terminal nucleus. Radula most species with the rachidian and lateral teeth each with three sharply pointed cusps.
Remarks:
Habe, 1972 proposed
Parancistrolepidinae
(as Parancistrolepisinae) as distinct from Ancistrolepidinae (as Ancistrolepisinae), based on differences in the radula and the operculum between
Parancistrolepis kinoshitai
(Kuroda, 1931)
and
Ancistrolepis grammatus
(Dall, 1907)
, and the
type
of the genus,
Ancistrolepis eucosmius
(Dall, 1891)
. Although he used the name Ancistrolepisinae, and implied that the two previously mentioned species were included in it, no actual diagnosis of the subfamily was offered, only a distinction between the radula and opercula of the two. Although the use of the name Ancistrolepisinae and its
type
species were implied (before the use of
Parancistrolepidinae
), however no diagnosis for Ancistrolepidinae was published until 1973.
Parancistrolepidinae
was selected by
Kantor
et al
. (2022)
as the subfamily name, as it is uncertain if the rule of strict priority applies in this case and if the implied association is sufficient for validation (Kantor,
personal comm.
September, 2021). The rule of “first reviewer” (
Kantor
et al.
2022
) may apply in this case and would render the question mute. This case may need to be reviewed by the Committee on Zoological Nomenclature. Egg capsules solitary, large, elongate-oval with long stalk. Capsule smooth (
Kantor 1988
).