Antiguraleus subtruncatus

Antiguraleus subtruncatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Antiguraleus subtruncatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Antiguraleus
Species:
A. subtruncatus
Binomial name
Antiguraleus subtruncatus
A.W.B. Powell, 1942
Synonyms[1]

Propebela subtruncata (Powell, 1942)

Description

The length of the shell attains 6.8 mm, its diameter 3.2 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the west coast of South Island, from Cook Strait to Otago New Zealand

References

  1. Marshall, B. (2015). Antiguraleus subtruncatus Powell, 1942. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433006 on 2017-03-02
  • 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.
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p. 239)
  • Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.


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