Neoguraleus deceptus

Neoguraleus deceptus is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Neoguraleus deceptus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Neoguraleus
Species:
N. deceptus
Binomial name
Neoguraleus deceptus
A.W.B. Powell, 1942

Distribution

This extinct marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs in Cenozoic strata in Otago.

References

  1. WoRMS (2009). Neoguraleus manukauensis Powell, 1942. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434471 on 2017-10-17
  • Powell, Arthur William Baden. The New Zealand Recent and Fossil Mollusca of the Family Turridae: With General Notes on Turrid Nomenclature and Systematics. No. 2. Unity Press limited, printers, 1942.
  • 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.


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