Exiloberingius, Mclean & Clark, 2023

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, Zootaxa 5351 (2), pp. 151-201 : 172

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8391567
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Exiloberingius
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Genus Exiloberingius View in CoL n. gen.

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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 View in CoL , n. sp. (HD).

Remarks: differs from all other Beringiinae by the excessively thin, poorly calcified shell, and the thick, fibrous periostracum. One Aleutian species.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Order	Neogastropoda
Family	Buccinidae

Specimens

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