Wairarapa (gastropod) explained

Wairarapa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.^[1]

Description

This genus was proposed by Vella in 1954 for species resembling Splendrillia, but having a different protoconch, another subsutural fold and showing a stromboid notch

Distribution

The species type of this genus is extinct and was endemic to New Zealand. W. duplaris occurs off North Australia to Queensland, Auistralia.

Species

• Wairarapa duplaris (Hedley, 1922)
• † Wairarapa rebecca Vella, 1954

References

• Hedley, Charles. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Vol. 13. 1922

External links

• Vella, Paul. "Tertiary Mollusca from south-east Wairarapa." Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Vol. 81. No. 4. 1954.
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

Notes and References

1. Marshall, B. (2015). Wairarapa. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432590 on 2016-12-11