Euthrenopsis venusta

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Euthrenopsis venusta
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Holotype from the Auckland War Memorial Museum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Euthrenopsis
Species:
E. venusta
Binomial name
Euthrenopsis venusta
(Powell, 1929)

Euthrenopsis venusta is a species of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae. [1] It was first described by Baden Powell in 1929. It is endemic to the waters of New Zealand.

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Description

Euthrenopsis bountyensis has a shell with six whorls, with strong and even convex outlines. [2]

Distribution

The species is Endemic to New Zealand. [1] The holotype was collected off the coast of the Otago Region, close to Oamaru. [3] [2] Euthrenopsis venusta specimens have also been discovered east of the Otago Peninsula, [4] overlapping with the range of Euthrenopsis otagoensis . Euthrenopsis venusta is the only species from the genus that has been recorded as occurring in the bathyal zone. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2022). "Euthrenopsis bountyensis Powell, 1929". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  2. 1 2 Powell, A. W. B. (1930). "The Recent and Tertiary Species of the Genus Buccinulum in New Zealand, with a Review of Related Genera and Families". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 60: 57–106 via Papers Past.
  3. "Euthrenopsis venusta". Auckland War Memorial Museum . Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  4. "Euthrenopsis venusta". Auckland War Memorial Museum . Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  5. Beu, AG (1969). "Additional Pliocene bathyal Mollusca from South Wairarapa, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 12 (2–3): 484–496. doi:10.1080/00288306.1969.10420294. ISSN   0028-8306.

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