Bathytoma proavita

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

Bathytoma proavita
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Bathytoma
Species:
B. proavita
Binomial name
Bathytoma proavita
(Powell, 1942)

Distribution

This extinct marine species is endemic to New Zealand .

Description

References

  1. Marshall, B. (2015). Bathytoma proavita (Powell, 1942) †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831611 on 2016-02-16
  • Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
  • 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.


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