Hauturua is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.[1]
| Hauturua | |
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| Hauturua exuta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Hauturua Powell, 1942 |
| Type species | |
| Syntomodrillia vivens Powell, 1942 | |
| Species | |
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Distribution
editFossils of the species are found in Miocene strata of Australia and New Zealand, and recent extant species in New Zealand.[2][3]
Species
editSpecies within the genus Hauturua include:
- † Hauturua bijuga (Marwick, 1931)
- † Hauturua exiguescens (Marwick, 1931)
- † Hauturua exuta (A. W. B. Powell, 1944)
- † Hauturua laevella (Marwick, 1931)
- Hauturua vellai (Beu, 1970)
- Hauturua vivens (A. W. B. Powell, 1942)
References
edit- ↑ Bouchet, P. (2015). Hauturua Powell, 1942. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578104 on 17 November 2025
- ↑ Darragh, Thomas A. (August 2024). "A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca". Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 83: 37–206. doi:10.24199/J.MMV.2024.83.02. ISSN 1447-2546. Wikidata Q136396722.
- ↑ Beu, A. G. (1 July 1970). "Bathyal Upper Miocene Mollusca from Wairarapa District, New Zealand". Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand: Earth Sciences. 7 (12): 209–240.
Further reading
edit- Marwick, John. The Tertiary Mollusca of the Gisborne District. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Geological Survey Branch, 1931.
- Beu, Alan G. "Descriptions of new species and notes on taxonomy of New Zealand Mollusca." Royal Society of New Zealand, 1970.