Austrocarina

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Austrocarina
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Austrocarina
Laseron, 1954 [1]
Type species
Leucosyrinx recta
Hedley, 1903
Species

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Austrocarina is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Horaiclavidae. [2]

Contents

It was formerly included within the family Pseudomelatomidae.

Species

Species within the genus Austrocarina include:

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References

  1. Laseron (1954). "Review of the New South Wales Turridae". Roy. Zoo. Soc. N.S.W. , Sydney, 21.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Austrocarina. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432405 on 2016-12-27