Exiloberingius Mclean & Clark 2023
- Dataset
- Seven new genera and thirty-four new species of buccinoid gastropods (Neogastropoda: Buccinidae) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Mclean, James H., Clark, Roger N. (2023): Seven new genera and thirty-four new species of buccinoid gastropods (Neogastropoda: Buccinidae) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Zootaxa 5351 (2): 151-201, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.2.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5351.2.1
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Mollusca
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Neogastropoda
- family
- Buccinidae
- genus
- Exiloberingius
diagnosis
Diagnosis: shell pyriform, canal short, shell extremely thin, fragile, reinforced with thicker interior deposition along the columella and final lip; periostracum fibrous in thick axial ridges below suture; axial and spiral sculpture weak or lacking.
discussion
Remarks: differs from all other Beringiinae by the excessively thin, poorly calcified shell, and the thick, fibrous periostracum. One Aleutian species.
type_taxon
Type species: Exiloberingius fragilis McLean & Clark, n. sp. (HD).
Name
- Homonyms
- Exiloberingius Mclean & Clark 2023