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Anacithara nana

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Anacithara nana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Anacithara
Species:
A. nana
Binomial name
Anacithara nana
A.W.B. Powell, 1942

Anacithara nana is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]

Description

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Distribution

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This extinct marine species occurred off New Zealand in Lower and Middle Miocene strata.

References

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  1. ^ a b Marshall, B. (2015). Anacithara nana Powell, 1942 †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831539 on 2016-12-22
  • 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.
  • 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.