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Genus
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFF1CFB56FE1AFB70" bold="true" box="[238,391,1159,1185]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Mioawateria</emphasis>
Vella, 1954
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFF65FB1EFE90FB36" bold="true" box="[151,269,1231,1255]" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Remarks:</emphasis>
Vella (1954) originally introduced
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFD52FB1EFCACFB37" box="[672,817,1231,1254]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Mioawateria</emphasis>
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as a subgenus of
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFC0CFB1FFBFFFB37" box="[1022,1122,1230,1254]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Awateria</emphasis>
Suter, 1917
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, with
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFAC5FB1FFE2BFADA" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Awateria (Mioawateria) personata</emphasis>
Powell, 1942
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, an Early Pliocene species from
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, designated as the
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species. According to its describer, the subgenus
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFD1CFAC6FCE2FAFF" box="[750,895,1303,1326]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Mioawateria</emphasis>
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is characterized by the presence of strongly shouldered whorls and a narrow moniliform subsutural fold. Powell (1966) provided a list of species, all from the
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Tertiary, he regarded as characteristic of
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFD05FA8EFC15FAA7" box="[759,904,1375,1398]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Mioawateria</emphasis>
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and referred both
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFBA6FA8FFB25FAA7" box="[1108,1208,1374,1398]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Awateria</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFB1DFA8EFA1DFAA7" box="[1263,1408,1375,1398]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Mioawateria</emphasis>
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to subfamily
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. Beu (1969) used
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFD96FA55FD68FA4A" box="[612,757,1412,1435]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Mioawateria</emphasis>
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as a full genus and transferred it to the
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on the basis of the presence of diagonally cancellate protoconch sculpture. Maxwell (1988) widely discussed the classification of
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fossil
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFDB3FA1DFD4FFA32" box="[577,722,1484,1507]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Mioawateria</emphasis>
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species and recognized the following three fossil species:
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFA8FFA1DFE9AF9D6" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">M. personata</emphasis>
(Powell, 1942)
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,
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E264FF8AFE3AFA21FD62F9D7" authority="Laws, 1947" authorityName="Laws" authorityYear="1947" box="[456,767,1518,1543]" class="Gastropoda" family="Raphitomidae" genus="Mioawateria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="expalliata">
<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFE3AFA21FDC2F9D7" box="[456,607,1518,1543]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">M. expalliata</emphasis>
(Laws, 1947)
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and
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E264FF8AFCCBFA21FA05F9D7" authority="Grant-Mackie and Chapman-Smith, 1971" authorityName="Grant-Mackie and Chapman-Smith" authorityYear="1971" box="[825,1432,1518,1543]" class="Gastropoda" family="Raphitomidae" genus="Mioawateria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="aitanga">
<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFCCBFA21FC2BF9D7" box="[825,950,1519,1543]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">M. aitanga</emphasis>
Grant-Mackie and Chapman-Smith, 1971
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, this latter characterized by strong spiral sculpture and possibly belonging to a distinct lineage (P.A. Maxwell pers. comm.). Fischer (1927) described
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFDEEF9E7FC70F99F" box="[540,1005,1590,1614]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Mangilia (Pleurotomella) extensaeformis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E264FF8AFC06F9E6FB31F99F" box="[1012,1196,1590,1614]" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" rank="variety" variety="crasselirata">
var.
<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFBD4F9E7FB31F99F" box="[1062,1196,1590,1614]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">crasselirata</emphasis>
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from the Pliocene of Timor which seems to represent a valid species with a relatively well developed spiral sculpture. Maxwell (1988) also recognized the recent
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E264FF8AFE23F9AFFC6DF947" authority="Schepman, 1913" authorityName="Schepman" authorityYear="1913" box="[465,1008,1662,1686]" class="Gastropoda" family="Raphitomidae" genus="Pleurotomella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="extensaeformis">
<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFE23F9AFFCBEF947" box="[465,803,1662,1686]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Pleurotomella extensaeformis</emphasis>
Schepman, 1913
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, a species with a broad Indo-Pacific distribution (Okutani, 1968; Sysoev, 1996; Thiele, 1925), as a recent member of the genus.
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According to Appeltans
<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFDFDF919FDC2F90F" box="[527,607,1734,1759]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">et al.,</emphasis>
2012 (World Register of Marine Species, accessed at http:// www.marinespecies.org)
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E264FF8AFE41F93DFDD9F8D2" box="[435,580,1772,1795]" class="Gastropoda" family="Raphitomidae" genus="Mioawateria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFE41F93DFDD9F8D2" box="[435,580,1772,1795]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Mioawateria</emphasis>
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is represented in the recent fauna by four species.
</paragraph>
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A possible fifth species is
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFE00F8DFFC9CF8F7" box="[498,769,1806,1830]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Gymnobela rhomboidea</emphasis>
Thiele, 1925
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reported by Sysoev (1997) as a
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFAF6F8DEFA08F8F7" box="[1284,1429,1807,1830]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Mioawateria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Recently, Figueira &amp; Absalão (2012) referred
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFD48F8E2FBFEF89A" box="[698,1123,1843,1867]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Pleurotoma (Bela) blakeana extensa</emphasis>
Dall, 1881
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,
<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFB0FF8E2FE0CF8BF" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E264FF8AFB0FF8E2FA01F89A" box="[1277,1436,1843,1867]" class="Gastropoda" family="Raphitomidae" genus="Pleurotomella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">Pleurotomella</taxonomicName>
(
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?) malmii
</emphasis>
Dall, 1889 and
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E264FF8AFDA4F887FB81F8BF" authority="Dautzenberg, 1889" authorityName="Dautzenberg" authorityYear="1889" box="[598,1052,1878,1902]" class="Gastropoda" family="Clathurellidae" genus="Clathurella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="watsoni">
<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFDA4F887FCA5F8BF" box="[598,824,1878,1902]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Clathurella watsoni</emphasis>
Dautzenberg, 1889
</taxonomicName>
to genus
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFB67F887FA9DF8BF" box="[1173,1280,1878,1902]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Magnella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The authors claimed that the synonymy of
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFDFCF8AAFDE4F842" box="[526,633,1915,1939]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Magnella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with
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<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFD35F8ADFCCAF842" box="[711,855,1916,1939]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Mioawateria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is unwarranted as the
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of
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E264FF8AFAF9F8ADFE20F867" authority="Powell, 1942" authorityName="Powell" authorityYear="1942" class="Gastropoda" family="Raphitomidae" genus="Mioawateria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="personata">
<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFAF9F8ADFE9AF866" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Mioawateria personata</emphasis>
(Powell, 1942)
</taxonomicName>
,
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species of
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E264FF8AFD73F84EFC8CF867" box="[641,785,1951,1974]" class="Gastropoda" family="Raphitomidae" genus="Mioawateria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFD73F84EFC8CF867" box="[641,785,1951,1974]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Mioawateria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, has broken and eroded protoconch. We have examined specimens of
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E264FF8AFECAF815FE4CF80A" box="[312,465,1988,2011]" class="Gastropoda" family="Raphitomidae" genus="Mioawateria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="personata">
<emphasis id="B9174474E264FF8AFECAF815FE4CF80A" box="[312,465,1988,2011]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">M. personata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from the Waiauan (Middle Miocene) of Karoro quarry, Greymouth (
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) studied by Maxwell (1988) and stored at the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS accession number GS3341, J32/f7585) which bear a typical raphitomine protoconch (fig. 2.DE). These specimens conform in all teleoconch features to the
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of
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E265FF8BFD95FF30FCE9FF29" box="[615,884,225,248]" class="Gastropoda" family="Raphitomidae" genus="Mioawateria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="584" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="personata">
<emphasis id="B9174474E265FF8BFD95FF30FCE9FF29" box="[615,884,225,248]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="584">Mioawateria personata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(GNS accession number TM 3761), from the Opoitian (Early Pliocene) of Mangawhero Stream, Wairoa (
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) (fig. 2.AC). Even assuming the remote hypothesis that
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E265FF8BFEB8FEF8FE7DFE91" box="[330,480,297,320]" class="Gastropoda" family="Raphitomidae" genus="Mioawateria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="584" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="personata">
<emphasis id="B9174474E265FF8BFEB8FEF8FE7DFE91" box="[330,480,297,320]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="584">M. personata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
actually had a paucispiral protoconch, its inclusion within the family
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E265FF8BFB0DFEF6FA01FEEE" box="[1279,1436,295,319]" class="Gastropoda" family="Raphitomidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="584" phylum="Mollusca" rank="family">Raphitomidae</taxonomicName>
would not be excluded as demonstrated by numerous raphitomine species, such members of
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E265FF8BFB46FE9CFA95FEB5" box="[1204,1288,333,356]" class="Gastropoda" family="Raphitomidae" genus="Taranis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="584" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B9174474E265FF8BFB46FE9CFA95FEB5" box="[1204,1288,333,356]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="584">Taranis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, bearing this
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of protoconch. For these reasons we agree with Maxwells proposed synonymy and regard the species cited above as members of
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<emphasis id="B9174474E265FF8BFE79FE44FD81FE7D" box="[395,540,405,428]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="584">Mioawateria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The genus
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<emphasis id="B9174474E265FF8BFD56FE44FCA8FE7D" box="[676,821,405,428]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="584">Mioawateria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
certainly occurred in the Miocene to Early Pleistocene of
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(in prep.) with at least two taxa bearing “typical” morphological features, namely the Late Miocene
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E265FF8BFF65FE0DFD8BFE25" authority="Bellardi, 1847" authorityName="Bellardi" authorityYear="1847" box="[151,534,476,500]" class="Gastropoda" family="Raphitomidae" genus="Pleurotoma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="584" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="brevis">
<emphasis id="B9174474E265FF8BFF65FE0DFEF5FE25" box="[151,360,476,500]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="584">Pleurotoma brevis</emphasis>
Bellardi, 1847
</taxonomicName>
and the Pliocene-Early Pleistocene
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E265FF8BFC48FE0CFA05FE25" authority="Ruggieri, 1957" authorityName="Ruggieri" authorityYear="1957" box="[954,1432,476,500]" class="Gastropoda" family="Borsoniidae" genus="Genotia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="584" phylum="Mollusca" rank="subSpecies" species="brevis" subSpecies="pliorecens">
<emphasis id="B9174474E265FF8BFC48FE0CFB7DFE25" box="[954,1248,476,500]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="584">Genotia brevis pliorecens</emphasis>
Ruggieri, 1957
</taxonomicName>
, introduced as a chronosubspecies of
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E265FF8BFDCEFDD0FD00FDC9" box="[572,669,512,536]" class="Gastropoda" family="Borsoniidae" genus="Genotia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="584" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="brevis">
<emphasis id="B9174474E265FF8BFDCEFDD0FD00FDC9" box="[572,669,512,536]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="584">P. brevis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which closely resemble
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E265FF8BFC30FDD0FAF7FDC6" authority="Powell, 1942" authorityName="Powell" authorityYear="1942" box="[962,1386,511,536]" class="Gastropoda" family="Raphitomidae" genus="Mioawateria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="584" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="personata">
<emphasis id="B9174474E265FF8BFC30FDD0FB56FDC9" box="[962,1227,513,536]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="584">Mioawateria personata</emphasis>
Powell, 1942
</taxonomicName>
and the recent
<taxonomicName id="4C63E3E5E265FF8BFEF9FDF4FE74FDED" box="[267,489,549,572]" class="Gastropoda" family="Raphitomidae" genus="Mioawateria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="584" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="vivens" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B9174474E265FF8BFEF9FDF4FE74FDED" box="[267,489,549,572]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="584">Mioawateria vivens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B9174474E265FF8BFE02FDF5FDD7FDED" bold="true" box="[496,586,548,572]" pageId="5" pageNumber="584">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A224F90FE265FF8BFE02FDF5FDD7FDED" box="[496,586,548,572]" pageId="5" pageNumber="584" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
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