''Mauidrillia'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s, marine
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the
family
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Horaiclavidae
Horaiclavidae is a family of predatory sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomi ...
, 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
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to Recent
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Mauidrillia acuta''
(Marwick, 1928)
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Mauidrillia angustata''
Powell, 1942
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Mauidrillia browni''
Marwick, 1943
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Mauidrillia cinctuta''
(Marwick, 1929)
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Mauidrillia clavicula''
Powell, 1942
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Mauidrillia consutilis''
(Tenison-Woods, 1880)
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Mauidrillia costifer''
(Suter, 1917)
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Mauidrillia felina''
Kilburn, 1988
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Mauidrillia fimbriata''
Laws, 1947
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Mauidrillia imparilirata''
Powell, 1942
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Mauidrillia inaequalis''
Powell, 1942
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Mauidrillia incerta''
Beu, 1970
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Mauidrillia occidentalis''
Maxwell, 1988
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Mauidrillia praecophinodes''
(Suter, 1917)
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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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