''Lissotesta exigua'' is an extinct
species
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of
sea snail
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, a
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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
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, unassigned in the
superfamily
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Seguenzioidea
Seguenzioidea is a superfamily of minute to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.Gofas, S. (2010). Seguenzioidea. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed ...
.
[MolluscaBase (2018). ''Lissotesta exigua'' (Suter, 1917) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=830271 on 2018-12-28]
Distribution
This species occurs in New Zealand.
References
exigua
''Exigua'' (synonym: ''Brassicicephalus'') is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 497 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period. Exigu ...
Gastropods described in 1917
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