Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1963. Permian gastropods of New Zealand; Part 3, Pleurotomariacea (concluded). New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 6:587-622

Belongs to Glabrocingulum (Ananias) according to J. B. Waterhouse 1963

Sister taxa: Ananias alticonica, Ananias appeli, Ananias conglobata, Ananias guojiashanensis, Ananias labrectus, Ananias nana, Ananias nevadensis, Ananias nodocostatus, Ananias ootomaria, Ananias permianus, Ananias talpaensis, Ananias weyeri, Glabrocingulum (Ananias) laevilineata, Glabrocingulum (Ananias) regulocostata, Glabrocingulum (Ananias) seminudum, Glabrocingulum (Ananias) welleri

Type specimen: Its type locality is GS1456, Steel's House Quarry, Clinton (G45/f9498), which is in a Changhsingian marine horizon in New Zealand

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell width 28.2, shell diameter 25.6