Mitrellatoma angustata explained

Mitrellatoma angustata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.^[1]

Description

(Original description) The shell shows narrow spiral grooves; seven on the penultimate and fifteen on the body whorl.

Distribution

This extinct marine species is endemic to New Zealand.

References

• F.W. Hutton, New Species of Tertiary Shells; The New Zealand Journal of Science 1885b, p. 524 (1886, p. 333)
• Powell, Arthur William Baden. "The New Zealand recent and fossil Mollusca of the family Turridae with general notes on Turrid nomenclature and systematics." (1942).
• Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
• 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
• Beu, A.G. 2011 Marine Molluscs of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 41, 1–153

External links

• 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
• Tucker . J.K. . 2004 . Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) . Zootaxa . 682 . 1–1295 . 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 .
• Marshall, B. A. (1995). Molluscan and brachiopod taxa introduced by F.W. Hutton in The New Zealand Journal of Science. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 25: 495–500

Notes and References

1. Marshall, B. (2016). Mitrellatoma angustata (Hutton, 1885) †. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831644 on 2018-02-09