Zemacies ordinaria

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Zemacies ordinaria
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Zemacies
Species:Z. ordinaria
Binomial name
Zemacies ordinaria
(P. Marshall, 1918)
Synonyms [1]
  • Surcula ordinariaMarshall, 1918

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

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Sea snail common name for snails that normally live in saltwater

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Description

The whorls increase rapidly in size on this very narrow shell. The nodular axials are more or less restricted to the periphery. The subsutural fold is obsolete. There are 21 - 22 strong nodules per whorl. [2]

Whorl (mollusc)

A whorl is a single, complete 360° revolution or turn in the spiral growth of a mollusc shell. A spiral configuration of the shell is found in of numerous gastropods, but it is also found in shelled cephalopods including Nautilus, Spirula and the large extinct subclass of cephalopods known as the ammonites.

Distribution

This extinct marine species is endemic to New Zealand and was found in Lower Miocene strata.

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References

  1. 1 2 Marshall, B. (2015). Zemacies ordinaria. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831528 on 2016-04-10
  2. R. Tucker-Abbott & W.J. Clench, Indo-Pacific Mollusca vol. 2 # 9-10 (1968)