Bathytoma wairarapaensis
| Bathytoma wairarapaensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Bathytoma |
| Species: | B. wairarapaensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Bathytoma wairarapaensis (Vella, 1954)
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Bathytoma wairarapaensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1] As the species name implies, it was described from the Wairarapa.
Distribution[edit]
This extinct marine species was found from fossils endemic to New Zealand. The fossils date back to the end of the Cenozoic era.
Description[edit]
The length of the shell attains 27 mm, its diameter 15.5 mm.
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References[edit]
- ^ a b Marshall, B. (2015). Marshall, B. (2015). Bathytoma wairarapaensis Vella, 1954 †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831600 on 2016-02-22
- P Vella, Tertiary Mollusca from south-east Wairarapa; Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 1954
- 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.