''Antiguraleus makaraensis'' is an extinct species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Mangeliidae.
[Marshall, B. (2015). Antiguraleus makaraensis Vella, 1954 †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831682 on 7 March 2017]
A.G. Beu (2009) adopted ''Probebela'' for all the southern hemisphere taxa previously referred to ''Antiguraleus''.
"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."
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Description
The length of the shell attains 7 mm, its diameter 3 mm.
Distribution
This extinct marine species occurred in the North Island, New Zealand.
References
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.
External links
Collections of TePapa Museum: ''Antiguraleus makaraensis''
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makaraensis
Gastropods described in 1954