Clavatoma pulchra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Clavatoma
Species:
C. pulchra
Binomial name
Clavatoma pulchra
Powell, 1942

Clavatoma pulchra is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 25 mm.

Distribution

This extinct species is endemic to New Zealand and was found in Pliocene strata of Opoitian and Waipipian rocks of northern Wairarapa

References

  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Clavatoma pulchra Powell, 1942 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831551 on 2018-06-02
  • Powell, Arthur William Baden. "The New Zealand recent and fossil Mollusca of the family Turridae with general notes on Turrid nomenclature and systematics." (1942); Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 2: 192 pp.
  • 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
  • Aidan Gordon Milner (2017), The Pliocene-Pleistocene development, uplift and emergence history of the Manawatu Strait, New Zealand; thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington


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