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Puha hebes

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Extinct species of gastropod

Puha hebes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Puha
Species: P. hebes
Binomial name
Puha hebes
(Hutton, 1873)
Synonyms

Pleurotoma hebes Hutton, 1873

Puha hebes is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.

Description

(Original description) The shell is ovato-fusiform with a blunt spire. The whorls are rather angled and distantly spirally striated. The shell shows a spiral row of nodules along the keel. Above the keel it is smooth. The body whorl is larger than the spire. The siphonal canal has a moderate length.

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in New Zealand off Oamaru.

References

  1. ^ MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Puha hebes (Hutton, 1873) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831739 on 2019-12-30
  2. Hutton F. W. 1873. Catalogue of the Tertiary Mollusca and Echinodermata of New Zealand, in the collection of the Colonial Museum. Didsbury, Government Printer, Wellington. xvi + 48 pp
  • 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.
Taxon identifiers
Puha hebes
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