Amalda mucronata

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Amalda mucronata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Ancillariidae
Genus: Amalda
Species:
A. mucronata
Binomial name
Amalda mucronata
(Sowerby I, 1830)
Synonyms
  • Ancillaria mucronataG.B. Sowerby I, 1830 (original combination)
  • Baryspira mucronata(G.B. Sowerby I, 1830)

Amalda mucronata is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ancillariidae. [1] These snails live in the sandy subtidal near-shore environment where they eat bivalves. Fossil material of this species provides evidence of morphological stasis over 5 million years [2] [3]

Contents

Shell description

The shell height is up to 61 mm, and the width is up to 27 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to and occurs off New Zealand. [4]

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References

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  2. Michaux, B (1989). "Morphological variation of species through time". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 38 (3): 239–255. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1989.tb01577.x.
  3. Gould, Stephen Jay (1991). "Opus 200". Natural History. 100 (8): 12–18.
  4. Michaux, B. (1987). "An analysis of allozymic characters of four species of New Zealand Amalda (Gastropoda: Olividae: Ancillinae)". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 14 (3): 359–366. doi:10.1080/03014223.1987.10423006. ISSN   0301-4223.