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Antimelatoma is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turridae, the turrids.
Distribtion
This genus is endemic to New Zealand.
Shell description
The shells of species in this genus are of moderate size, narrowly fusiform, with a tall spired and rather long, unnotched, slightly flexed siphonal canal.
Species in the genus Antimelatoma
- Antimelatoma ahipara Powell A. W. B, 1942
- Antimelatoma buchanani maorum (E. A. Smith, 1877)
- Antimelatoma benthicola Powell A. W. B, 1942
- Antimelatoma maoria Dell, 1995
References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1