Anacithara clifdenica

Anacithara clifdenica
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Anacithara
Species:
A. clifdenica
Binomial name
Anacithara clifdenica
A.W.B. Powell, 1942

Anacithara clifdenica is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae. [1]

Description

Distribution

This extinct marine species occurred off New Zealand in Lower and Middle Miocene strata.

References

  • 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.