Antiguraleus taranakiensis

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Antiguraleus taranakiensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Antiguraleus
Species:
A. taranakiensis
Binomial name
Antiguraleus taranakiensis
(Marwick, 1926)
Synonyms [1]

† Mangilia taranakiensisMarwick, 1926

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

Contents

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 4 mm.

Distribution

This extinct marine species occurred on New Zealand in Late Middle Miocene-Late Miocene strata (Waiauan-Kapitean)

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References

  1. 1 2 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."
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