''Neoguraleus murdochi'' 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.
[Marshall, B. (2015). Neoguraleus murdochi (Finlay, 1924). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724161 on 2017-10-19]
Description
The length of the shell attains 9 mm, its diameter 3.5 mm.
Distribution
This marine species is
endemic to New Zealand and occurs throughout New Zealand and at the
Steward Island
Steward Island ( da, Steward Ø; also ''Stewart Ø'' in some sources)''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 111 is an uninhabited island in King Christian IX Land, at the eastern end of Greenland. Administratively i ...
; fossils have been found in
Pliocene strata.
References
* Powell, Arthur William Baden. The New Zealand Recent and Fossil Mollusca of the Family Turridae: With General Notes on Turrid Nomenclature and Systematics. No. 2. Unity Press limited, printers, 1942.
* 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
HJ Finlay, ''Some necessary changes in names of New Zealand Mollusca''; Journal of Molluscan Studies, 1924New Zealand Mollusca: ''Neoguraleus murdochi''Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone*
murdochi
Gastropods described in 1924
Gastropods of New Zealand
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