Kuroshioturris angustata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
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| Shell of Kuroshioturris angustata (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Genus: | Kuroshioturris |
| Species: | K. angustata
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| Kuroshioturris angustata (Powell, 1940)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 16.5 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs at depths between 30 m to 300 m. all around northern and eastern New Zealand. It is also known as a fossil in Mangapanian strata or earliest Nukumaruan strata.
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Kuroshioturris angustata (Powell, 1940). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599044 on 2021-04-18
- Shuto T. (1961). Conacean gastropods from the Miyazaki Group (Paleontological study of the Miyazaki Group-IX). Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, series D, Geology. 11(2): 71-150, pls 3-10.
- Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 p
External links
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Media related to Kuroshioturris angustata at Wikimedia Commons- Powell, A.W.B. (1940) The marine Mollusca of the Aupourian Province, New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 70, 205–248.
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
- Beu, A.G. 2011 Marine Molluscs of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 41, 1–153
- Gastropods.com: Kuroshioturris angustata
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