''Ilanga navakaensis'' is a
species
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of
sea snail
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, a
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gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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in the
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Solariellidae
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.
It is only known as a fossil.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ilanga navakaensis (Ladd, 1982). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1419685 on 2021-04-10]
Distribution
''Ilanga navakaensis'' is known only from the
Pleistocene
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of
Vanuatu
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, but Bruce Marshall (1993) recorded Recent material from
New Caledonia
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as ''Kaiparathina'' cf. ''navakaensis''
References
* Ladd, H. S. 1982. Cenozoic fossil mollusks from western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eulimidae and Volutidae through Terebridae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1171:iv + 1-100, 41 pls
* Marshall B.A. (1993) ''A review of the genus Kaiparathina Laws, 1941 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochoidea).'' The Veliger 36: 185-198
External links
To World Register of Marine SpeciesVilvens C. & Williams S.T. (2020). New species of Ilanga (Gastropoda: Trochoidea: Solariellidae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Zootaxa. 4732(2): 201-257
navakaensis
Gastropods described in 1982
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