''Antiguraleus pulcherrimus'' is a 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.
[WoRMS (2015). Antiguraleus pulcherrimus Dell, 1956. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433000 on 2017-03-02]
Description
The length of the shell attains 9 mm, its diameter 3.8 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs off
Chatham Rise, Off east coast North and South Islands, New Zealand
References
* Dell, Richard Kenneth. ''The archibenthal mollusca of New Zealand.'' Dominion Museum, 1956.
* Powell, A.W.B. 1979: ''New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells'', Collins, Auckland (p. 239)
* 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.
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295.New Zealand Mollusca: ''Propebela pulcherrima''Biolib.cz: Image of ''Antiguraleus pulcherrimus''
pulcherrimus
Gastropods described in 1956
Gastropods of New Zealand
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