''Typhlomangelia nodosolirata'' is an extinct species 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 ...

, a marine

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in the

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Borsoniidae Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Borsoniidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/ ...

.Marshall, B. (2015). Typhlomangelia nodosolirata. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831677 on 2016-04-07

Distribution

This extinct marine species was endemic to

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References

* Suter, Henry. Descriptions of New Tertiary Mollusca Occurring in New Zealand Part I. 1917. * 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.

External links

Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308
nodosolirata Gastropods described in 1917 Gastropods of New Zealand {{Borsoniidae-stub