Mitrellatoma angustata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.[1]
| Mitrellatoma angustata | |
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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: | Mitromorphidae |
| Genus: | †Mitrellatoma |
| Species: | †M. angustata
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| Binomial name | |
| †Mitrellatoma angustata (Hutton, 1885)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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† Columbella angustata Hutton, 1885 | |
Description
edit(Original description) The shell shows narrow spiral grooves; seven on the penultimate and fifteen on the body whorl.
Distribution
editThis extinct marine species is endemic to New Zealand.
References
edit- ^ a b Marshall, B. (2016). Mitrellatoma angustata (Hutton, 1885) †. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831644 on 2018-02-09
- F.W. Hutton, New Species of Tertiary Shells; The New Zealand Journal of Science 1885b, p. 524 (1886, p. 333)
- Powell, Arthur William Baden. "The New Zealand recent and fossil Mollusca of the family Turridae with general notes on Turrid nomenclature and systematics." (1942).
- Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
- 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
- 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
External links
edit- Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- Marshall, B. A. (1995). Molluscan and brachiopod taxa introduced by F.W. Hutton in The New Zealand Journal of Science. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 25: 495–500