Antiguraleus rishworthi

Antiguraleus rishworthi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Antiguraleus
Species:	A. rishworthi
Binomial name
Antiguraleus rishworthi Vella, 1954

Antiguraleus rishworthi is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. ^[1]

A.G. Beu (2009) adopted Probebela for all the southern hemisphere taxa previously referred to Antiguraleus. ^[2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 4.8 mm (0.19 in), its diameter 2.9 mm (0.11 in).

Distribution

This extinct marine species occurred in the North Island, New Zealand.

References

1. Marshall, B. (2015). Antiguraleus rishworthi Vella, 1954 †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831683 on 7 March 2017
2. "A.G. Beu and J.I. Raine (2009). Revised descriptions of New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca from Beu and Maxwell (1990). GNS Science miscellaneous series no. 27."

• Vella, Paul. "Tertiary Mollusca from south-east Wairarapa." Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Vol. 81. No. 4. 1954.
• Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp. 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

External links

• Collections of TePapa Museum: Antiguraleus rishworti