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Jerrybuccinum Kantor & Pastorino, 2009

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Buccinidae - Whelks

Description

Type species. Jerrybuccinum malvinense Kantor & Pastorino, 2009 (type locality: Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), 52°00'S; 56°36'W, R/V Eltanin cruise 7 st 558, 384-494 m).
Diagnosis. Jerrybuccinum is characterised by a slender, fusiform shell with a high spire but a moderately long siphonal canal, a broad but blunt protoconch ornamented with fine spiral cords, a sculpture consisting of rather short, slightly bended axial ribs on the adapical part of the whorls and two or more accentuated spiral cords at the transition to the base. In most species J. malvinense, the type species, J . explorator and J. species 1. the spiral cord delimitating the base forms a strong keel. This characteristic is subject to variation within the genus as the keel may be replaced by one or more weaker but slightly broader spiral cords (J. kantori sp. n. and J. species 2).
The radula is characterised by a rectangular central tooth with slightly curved base and with one (Kantor and Pastorino 2009) or two (present paper) small cusps and tricuspid lateral teeth with a long basal projection at the outer side.
Fraussen Sellanes Stahlschmidt - 2014 - The South-American radiation of Jerrybuccinum

Interchangeable taxa

* Kryptos Jeffreys in Dautzenberg and Fischer 1896 (type species Kryptos elegans, Jeffreys in Dautzenberg and Fischer 1896 = Pleurotomella koehleri Locard, 1896) dif¬fers by the presence of axial sculpture on the protoconch (rather than only fine spi¬ral cords), a broad interspace situated between the spiral cords along the periphery (rather than a spiral keel), carinated whorls (type species) or sculptured with sharp keels along the periphery (K. tholoides (Watson, 1882)), an operculum with terminal nucleus (rather than just falling within the margin) and a radula with a rectangular middle tooth without prominent cusps (Bouchet and Waren 1985: fig. 487). Bouchet and Waren (1985: 196) noted that K. koehleri lacks eyes.
* Americominella Klappenbach & Ureta, 1972 (type species: Americominella duartei Klappenbach & Ureta, 1972, a senior synonym of Americominella longisetosus (Castellanos & Fernandez, 1972)) (= Echinosipho Kaiser, 1977, type species: Echinosipho aculeatum Kaiser, 1977 a senior synonym oiA. duartei) from the Patagonian continental shelf is somewhat similar in protoconch morphology but differs by the radula, which has a clearly tricuspid central tooth with longer cusps and a broader base.
* Buccipagoda Ponder, 2010 (type species: Kapala kengrahami Ponder, 1982) from Australia has a radula with an identical central tooth, but which differs by the lateral teeth with one large outer cusp and more than 5 small inner cusps.
* Antarctoneptunea Dell, 1972 (type species: Fusitriton aurora Hedley, 1916) from off Antarctica is similar in shape but differs in the absence of axial sculpture, in having a large papilliform protoconch, a radula with a tricuspid central tooth and a much larger adult size.
* Prosipho Thiele, 1912 (type species: Prosipho gaussianus Thiele, 1912) is a rather heterogeneous group (Engl 2012) mainly living near Antarctica, with slender shells ornamented with a dominant spiral sculpture. Some Jerrybuccinum, especially the smaller species without obvious axial sculpture like J. species 2, may be confused with them. Prosipho differs by the smaller protoconch with smooth whorls, the axial sculpture that is usually absent or consisting of fine and sharp minute ridges that are straight (rather than broad and inclined ribs) and different radula morphology.
Fraussen Sellanes Stahlschmidt - 2014 - The South-American radiation of Jerrybuccinum
Author: Jan Delsing

Included taxa

Number of records: 3

species Jerrybuccinum explorator (Fraussen & Sellanes, 2008)

Jerrybuccinum explorator

species Jerrybuccinum kantori Fraussen, Sellanes & Stahlschmidt, 2014

Jerrybuccinum kantori

species Jerrybuccinum malvinense Kantor & Pastorino, 2009

Jerrybuccinum malvinense


Links and literature

EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [1270494]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Jerrybuccinum Kantor & Pastorino, 2009]
Data retrieved on: 29 November 2019

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