Kuroshioturris angustata

Kuroshioturris angustata
Shell of Kuroshioturris angustata (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Turridae
Genus:	Kuroshioturris
Species:	K. angustata
Binomial name
Kuroshioturris angustata (Powell, 1940)
Synonyms [1]
Lucerapex angustatus(Powell, 1940) Micantapex angustatusPowell, 1940 (original combination) Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) nodilirataMurdoch & Suter 1906 in part

Kuroshioturris angustata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 16.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs at depths between 30 m to 300 m. all around northern and eastern New Zealand. It is also known as a fossil in Mangapanian strata or earliest Nukumaruan strata.

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Kuroshioturris angustata (Powell, 1940). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599044 on 2021-04-18

• Shuto T. (1961). Conacean gastropods from the Miyazaki Group (Paleontological study of the Miyazaki Group-IX). Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, series D, Geology. 11(2): 71-150, pls 3-10.
• Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 p

External links

• Media related to Kuroshioturris angustata at Wikimedia Commons
• Powell, A.W.B. (1940) The marine Mollusca of the Aupourian Province, New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 70, 205–248.
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
• Beu, A.G. 2011 Marine Molluscs of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 41, 1–153
• Gastropods.com: Kuroshioturris angustata