Antiguraleus rishworthi is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
| Antiguraleus rishworthi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Antiguraleus |
| Species: | A. rishworthi
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| Binomial name | |
| Antiguraleus rishworthi Vella, 1954
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A.G. Beu (2009) adopted Probebela for all the southern hemisphere taxa previously referred to Antiguraleus.[2]
Description
editThe length of the shell attains 4.8 mm (0.19 in), its diameter 2.9 mm (0.11 in).
Distribution
editThis extinct marine species occurred in the North Island, New Zealand.
References
edit- ^ a b Marshall, B. (2015). Antiguraleus rishworthi Vella, 1954 †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831683 on 7 March 2017
- ^ "A.G. Beu and J.I. Raine (2009). Revised descriptions of New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca from Beu and Maxwell (1990). GNS Science miscellaneous series no. 27."
- Vella, Paul. "Tertiary Mollusca from south-east Wairarapa." Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Vol. 81. No. 4. 1954.
- 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.