''Aoteadrillia asper'' 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

Horaiclavidae Horaiclavidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. In 2011 this family was split off from the family Pseudomelatomidae (formerly the subfamily Crassispirinae McLean, 1971) by Bouchet P., Ka ...

.Marshall, B. (2015). Aoteadrillia asper (Marwick, 1931) †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831542 on 2016-12-26

Description

Distribution

This extinct marine species was endemic to New Zealand.

References

* Marwick, John. The Tertiary Mollusca of the Gisborne District. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Geological Survey Branch, 1931. * 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.

asper Asper may refer to: *Asper (') breathing mark in romanization of Greek *Asper (surname) *Asper, Missouri, a ghost town *Aemilius Asper, Latin grammarian *Aspron, a type of late Byzantine silver or billon coins *Akçe, an Ottoman silver coin, simi ...

Gastropods of New Zealand Gastropods described in 1931 {{Horaiclavidae-stub