''Mauidrillia'' is a
genus of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
s, marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the
family Horaiclavidae
Horaiclavidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
In 2011 this family was split off from the family Pseudomelatomidae (formerly the subfamily Crassispirinae McLean, 1971) by Bouchet P., Ka ...
, the turrids.
Species
Species within the genus ''Mauidrillia'' include:
A.W.B. Powell (1944) mentions also a number of Australian species from the Lower
Miocene to Recent
* † ''
Mauidrillia acuta''
(Marwick, 1928)
* † ''
Mauidrillia angustata''
Powell, 1942
* † ''
Mauidrillia browni''
Marwick, 1943
* † ''
Mauidrillia cinctuta''
(Marwick, 1929)
* † ''
Mauidrillia clavicula''
Powell, 1942
* † ''
Mauidrillia consutilis''
(Tenison-Woods, 1880)
* † ''
Mauidrillia costifer''
(Suter, 1917)
* ''
Mauidrillia felina''
Kilburn, 1988
* † ''
Mauidrillia fimbriata''
Laws, 1947
* † ''
Mauidrillia imparilirata''
Powell, 1942
* † ''
Mauidrillia inaequalis''
Powell, 1942
* † ''
Mauidrillia incerta''
Beu, 1970
* † ''
Mauidrillia occidentalis''
Maxwell, 1988
* † ''
Mauidrillia praecophinodes''
(Suter, 1917)
* † ''
Mauidrillia supralaevis''
Powell, 1942
* † ''
Mauidrillia unilirata''
Powell, 1942
References
* Powell, A.W.B. 1942: ''The New Zealand Recent and fossil Mollusca of the family Turridae''. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 2: 188 p
* P. A. Maxwell. 1988. ''Late Miocene Deep-Water Mollusca from the Stillwater Mudstone at Greymouth, Westland, New Zealand'': Paleoecology and Systematics. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 55
External links
Marwick, J. "Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961." Proc. US Nat. Mus 45 (1913): 235.Marwick, J. "The Tertiary Mollusca of the Chatham Islands including a generic revision of the New Zealand Pectinidae." Transactions of the New Zealand institute. Vol. 58. No. 4. 1928 Marwick, J. Some Tertiary Mollusca from North Otago. publisher not identified, 1943Beu, A. G. "Marine Mollusca of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 5. Summary." Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 42.1 (2012): 1-47
Horaiclavidae
Gastropod genera
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