Liracraea dictyota

Liracraea dictyota is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Liracraea dictyota
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Liracraea
Species:
L. dictyota
Binomial name
Liracraea dictyota
(F.W. Hutton, 1885)

Description

Distribution

This extinct species is endemic to New Zealand and fossils were found off Stewart Island.

References

  1. Marshall, B. (2015). Liracraea dictyota (Hutton, 1885) †. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831710 on 2017-08-06
  • Powell, Arthur William Baden. "The Mollusca of Stewart Island." Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 2.4 (1939): 211–238.
  • 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.
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