Kuroshioturris angustata

Kuroshioturris angustata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.

Description

The length of the shell attains 16.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs at depths between 30 m to 300 m. all around northern and eastern New Zealand. It is also known as a fossil in Mangapanian strata or earliest Nukumaruan strata.

References

• Shuto T. (1961). Conacean gastropods from the Miyazaki Group (Paleontological study of the Miyazaki Group-IX). Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, KyÅ«syÅ« University. Series D, Geology. 11(2): 71-150, pls 3-10.
• Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 p

External links

• Powell, A.W.B. (1940) The marine Mollusca of the Aupourian Province, New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 70, 205–248.
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
• Beu, A.G. 2011 Marine Molluscs of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 41, 1–153
• Gastropods.com: Kuroshioturris angustata