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genus

Exiloberingius McLean & Clark, 2023

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

Description

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.
Type species: Exiloberingius fragilis McLean & Clark, n. sp. (HD).
Remarks: differs from all other Beringiinae by the excessively thin, poorly calcified shell, and the thick, fibrous periostracum. One Aleutian species.
Mclean, J. H. & Clark, R. N., 2023. Seven new genera and thirty-four new species of buccinoid gastropods (Neogastropoda: Buccinidae) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
Author: Jan Delsing

Included taxa

Number of records: 1

species Exiloberingius fragilis J. H. McLean & R. N. Clark, 2023

Exiloberingius fragilis


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