Neptuneinae Stimpson 1865

• Main Authors: Mclean, James H., Clark, Roger N.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Neogastropoda; Colidae; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8391569; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B1CA1BFFD07C0BFF18CC0EFA604A6E

Subfamily Neptuneinae Stimpson, 1865 Diagnosis: Shell large, reaching 240 mm, broadly fusiform, with high spire and short to medium-long siphonal canal, often bent abaxially. Protoconch paucispiral, moderately large. Whorl profile convex to distinctly shouldered. Shell sculpture pronounced in most species, spiral sculpture from microscopic threads to prominent bulging keels; axial sculpture rarely present, then of indistinct axial ribs or sometimes distinct, raised, axial lamellae producing prominent nodules at shoulder. Aperture wide. Shell covered with smooth periostracum. Operculum large, spanning most of aperture, with terminal nucleus. Radula with multicuspid (two to eight cusps) central tooth with rectangular and anteriorly arcuate base lateral teeth broad, with two to seven cusps, outermost longest. (after Kantor et al. 2022). Remarks: Formerly considered part of the tribe Colini Gray, 1857 (Bouchet, et al. 2017) but differs genetically from that group. (Kantor et al . 2022). In the Aleutian Islands 24 species in three genera are recognized, including ten new species and one new genus. Published as part of 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, pp. 151-201 in Zootaxa 5351 (2) on page 174, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5351.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8391375