Amalda mucronata

Amalda mucronata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Olivoidea
Family:	Olividae
Genus:	Amalda
Species:	A. mucronata
Binomial name
	Amalda mucronata; (Sowerby I, 1830)
Synonyms
	Ancillaria mucronata G.B. Sowerby I, 1830 (original combination); Baryspira mucronata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1830);

Amalda mucronata is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Olividae, the olives.

Shell description

The shell height is up to 61 mm, and the width is up to 27 mm.

This marine species is endemic to and occurs off New Zealand.

Sowerby G.B. I (1830). Species Conchylirum or concise original descriptions and accompanied by figures of all the species of Recent shells, with their varieties. G.B. Sowerby, London.
Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-85467-054-8

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