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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Genus
Crebrivolutopsius
n. gen.
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Description:
Profile high, suture moderately impressed; sculpture of strongly projecting spiral cords, with deeply channeled interspaces along upper part of whorl, of broad flattened spiral cords with fine interspaces below periphery, columellar callus narrow; outer lip with numerous prominent teeth along lower margin. Radula with curved rachidian tooth with four subequal cusps; lateral teeth with three cusps.
Type
species:
C
.
labidentatus
n. sp.
(HD)
Remarks:
Crebrivolutopsius
shows some anomalous characters that resemble those of the subfamily
Neptuneinae
, namely the comparatively small nucleus and the tricuspid lateral teeth, but the form and proportions of the shell is
Volutopsiinae
, so it is provisionally placed in the later subfamily.