Puha hebes

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Puha hebes
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Puha
Species:
P. hebes
Binomial name
Puha hebes
(Hutton, 1873)
Synonyms [1]

Pleurotoma hebesHutton, 1873

Puha hebes is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. [1]

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Description

(Original description) The shell is ovato-fusiform with a blunt spire. The whorls are rather angled and distantly spirally striated. The shell shows a spiral row of nodules along the keel. Above the keel it is smooth. The body whorl is larger than the spire. The siphonal canal has a moderate length. [2]

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in New Zealand off Oamaru.

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