Argeneuthria, Pastorino, Guido, 2016

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, Zootaxa 4179 (3), pp. 301-344 : 326

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4179.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5662401
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scientific name	Argeneuthria
status	new genus

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Argeneuthria new genus

Type species. Euthria cerealis Rochebrune & Mabille, 1885 .

Diagnosis. Shell small to medium-sized, up to about 15.5 mm in total height, fusiform. Flat whorls, smooth or spiral cords and axial varices. Protoconch smooth. Elliptic aperture. Rachidian teeth tricuspid, rectangular, all cusps of the same size, lateral teeth Prosipho- like with two main curved cusps, the outer single or bifid. Penis cylindrical, with a small or large papilla rising from a hole.

Etymology. From the combination of Argentina and Euthria . The name is feminine.

Included species. Argeneuthria cerealis ( Rochebrune & Mabille, 1885) ; A. paessleri ( Strebel, 1905) ; A. euthrioides ( Melvill & Standen, 1898) ; A. philippii ( Strebel, 1905) ; A. varicosa n. sp.

References

Melvill, C. J. & Standen, R. (1898) Notes on a collection of marine shells from Lively Island, Falklands, with list of species. Journal of Conchology, 9, 97 - 105.

Rochebrune, A. T. D. & Mabille, J. (1885) Diagnoses de mollusques nouveaux, recueillis par les membres de la mission du Cap Horn et M. Lebrun, Preparateur au Museum, charge d'une mission a Santa-Cruz de Patagonie. Bulletin de la Societe Philomathique de Paris, 7 (9), 100 - 111.

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.