Vexiguraleus clifdenensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Vexiguraleus clifdenensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Mangeliidae |
Genus: | Vexiguraleus |
Species: | V. clifdenensis
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Binomial name | |
Vexiguraleus clifdenensis A.W.B. Powell, 1942
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Distribution
editThis extinct marine species can be found in Cenozoic strata in New Zealand
References
edit- ^ Marshall, B. (2015). Vexiguraleus clifdenensis Powell, 1942 †. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831721 on 2018-01-31
- Powell, Arthur William Baden. "The New Zealand recent and fossil Mollusca of the family Turridae with general notes on Turrid nomenclature and systematics." (1942).
- 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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