Revision of the genera Pareuthria Strebel, 1905, Glypteuthria Strebel, 1905 and Meteuthria Thiele, 1912 (Gastropoda: Buccinulidae) with the description of three new genera and two new species from Southwestern Atlantic waters
Author
Pastorino, Guido
text
Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4179.3.1
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Falsimacme
new genus
Type species.
Euthria
Glypteuthria kobelti
Strebel, 1905
.
Diagnosis.
Shell fusiform, small, protoconch small, 1½ whorls, smooth, spiral ornamentation of rounded threads crossed by axial varices; operculum subelliptical, nucleus subterminal; radula prosiphiine, rachidian teeth absent; laterals with 5 to 8 cusps, the cusps point posteriorly within the animal, slightly decreasing in size from the center to the sides of the radula.
Etymology.
The name acknowledges the (falsa = false in Spanish) resemblance to the radulae and shell of the species
Anomacme smithi
Strebel. The
genus is masculine.
Included species.
Only
F. kobelti
(
Strebel, 1905
)
.
Distribution.
As the
type
species.
Remarks.
Crenatosipho
Linse, 2002
resembles
Falsimacme
n. gen.
However, the radula has a small rachidian and large curved lateral teeth, both characters absent in
Falsimacme
n. gen.