''Clavatoma pulchra'' is an extinct

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of sea snail, a marine gastropod

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in the

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Pseudomelatomidae Pseudomelatomidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda ( Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). In 1995 Kantor elevated the subfamily Pseudomelatominae ...

, the turrids and alliesMolluscaBase (2018). Clavatoma pulchra Powell, 1942 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831551 on 2018-06-02

Description

The length of the shell attains 25 mm. It is solid and heavily sculptured.

Distribution

This extinct species is

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to New Zealand and was found in Pliocene strata of Opoitian and Waipipian rocks of northern

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References

* Powell, Arthur William Baden. "The New Zealand recent and fossil Mollusca of the family Turridae with general notes on Turrid nomenclature and systematics." (1942); Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 2: 192 pp. * 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 * Aidan Gordon Milner (2017), The Pliocene-Pleistocene development, uplift and emergence history of the Manawatu Strait, New Zealand; thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington

External links

A.G. Beu (1973), ''Descriptions of new species and notes on taxonomy of New Zealand Mollusca, No.2''; Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 3:3, 307-332

pulchra Gastropods described in 1942 Gastropods of New Zealand Pliocene gastropods {{paleo-Pseudomelatomidae-stub