Borsonia cliffdenensis

Borsonia cliffdenensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Borsoniidae
Genus:	Borsonia
Species:	B. cliffdenensis
Binomial name
Borsonia cliffdenensis H. Finlay, 1930

Borsonia cliffdenensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. ^[1]

Distribution

This extinct marine species was endemic to New Zealand.

References

1. Marshall, B. (2016). Borsonia clifdenensis Finlay, 1930 †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831614 on 2016-04-12

• Finlay, H. J. (1930). New shells from New Zealand Tertiary beds. Part 3. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 61, 49–84, 6 pls
• Powell, Arthur William Baden. The New Zealand Recent and Fossil Mollusca of the Family Turridae: With General Notes on Turrid Nomenclature and Systematics. No. 2. Unity Press limited, printers, 1942.
• 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.