A review of the genusXymeneIredale of New Zealand (Mollusca : Muricidae)

Abstract

The Recent and fossil New Zealand species previously assigned to Xymene Iredale, Axymene Finlay, Lenitrophon Finlay, Xymenella Finlay and Zeatrophon Finlay are reviewed. All of these genus-group names are placed as synonyms of Xymene. The species reviewed are plebeius plebeius (Hutton) (= inferus Hutton), plebeius moniliferus (Hutton) (= pulcherrimus Suter and coctor Marwick), plebeius expansus Hutton) (= drewi Hutton), gouldi (Cossmann) (= pusillus Suter, suteri Marshall and Murdoch and oliveri Marwick), lepidus lepidus (Suter) (= inambitiosa Marwick and asperula Powell), lepidus perornatus (Marwick), minutissimus (Suter), ambiguus (Philippi) (= elegans Fleming and mutabilis Marwick), bonneti bonneti (Cossmann), bonneti lassus (Marwick) (= murrayae Fleming), warreni sp. nov., chattonensis sp. nov. pulcherrimus (Finlay), huttoni (Murdoch) (= temetus Finlay), mortenseni mortenseni (Odhner), mortenseni caudatinus (Finlay), traversi (Hutton) (= corticatus Hutton and waipipicola Webster), protocarinatus (Laws), apipagodus sp. nov., aucklandicus (Smith) (= erectus Suter and turbator Finlay), teres (Finlay), convexus (Suter) and pumilus (Suter) (= robustus Finlay).