Carinastele Marshall, 1988

Herbert, David G., 2024, The Vetigastropoda (Mollusca) of Walters Shoal, with descriptions of two new genera and thirty new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 923, pp. 1-119 : 73

Genus Carinastele Marshall, 1988

Type species

Carinastele kristelleae Marshall, 1988 (original designation), Recent, New Zealand.

Remarks

Carinastele has been recorded previously from the south-western Indian Ocean ( Vilvens 2014), but as noted above under Bruceina areneformis sp. nov., the material concerned is in fact referable to Bruceina . The present material thus represents the first record of the genus from this region. The above notwithstanding, it remains to be established whether generic differentiation based on patterns of spiral cord ontogeny is supported by molecular data. The overall similarity between Carinastele achrosta sp. nov. and the type species of Bruceina , as well as the geographic proximity of their distributions, is noteworthy.