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Aeneator valedictus is a species of spindle snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the spindle snails and tulip snails.
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is found 200 miles west of Farewell Spit in the South Island, at the Chatham Islands, and on the Chatham Rise.
Habitat
This species is found at depths of between 145 and 600 m.
Description
The shell resembles Aeneator comptus but with a bluntly rounded periphery that is rendered strongly nodulous by short, oblique, axial folds, 10 to 13 per whorl. The neck is deeply excavated, and the long siphonal canal is somewhat flexed.
Coloration is white, under a pale yellowish periostracum.
The shell height is up to 51 mm, and width up to 22 mm.
References
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1