Falsimacme Pastorino, 2016, new genus

• Main Author: Pastorino, Guido
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Neogastropoda; Buccinidae; Falsimacme; Falsa; Guido; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5662396; https://zenodo.org/record/5662396

Falsimacme new genus Type species. Euthria Glypteuthria kobelti Strebel, 1905. Diagnosis. Shell fusiform, small, protoconch small, 1½ whorls, smooth, spiral ornamentation of rounded threads crossed by axial varices; operculum subelliptical, nucleus subterminal; radula prosiphiine, rachidian teeth absent; laterals with 5 to 8 cusps, the cusps point posteriorly within the animal, slightly decreasing in size from the center to the sides of the radula. Etymology. The name acknowledges the (falsa = false in Spanish) resemblance to the radulae and shell of the species Anomacme smithi Strebel. The genus is masculine. Included species. Only F. kobelti (Strebel, 1905). Distribution. As the type species. Remarks. Crenatosipho Linse, 2002 resembles Falsimacme n. gen. However, the radula has a small rachidian and large curved lateral teeth, both characters absent in Falsimacme n. gen. : Published as part of Pastorino, Guido, 2016, Revision of the genera Pareuthria Strebel, 1905, Glypteuthria Strebel, 1905 and Meteuthria Thiele, 1912 (Gastropoda: Buccinulidae) with the description of three new genera and two new species from Southwestern Atlantic waters, pp. 301-344 in Zootaxa 4179 (3) on page 323, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4179.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/256431 : {"references": ["Strebel, H. (1905) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Molluskenfauna der Magalhaen-Provinz. 3. Zoologischen Jahrbuchern. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie, und Biologie der Tiere, 22 (6), 575 - 666.", "Linse, K. (2002) The shelled Magellanic Mollusca: with special reference to biogeographic relations in the Southern Ocean. Theses Zoologicae, 34, 1 - 252."]}