Biology:Amalda mucronata
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Short description: Species of gastropod
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Ancillariidae |
| Genus: | Amalda |
| Species: | A. mucronata
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| Binomial name | |
| Amalda mucronata (Sowerby I, 1830)
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Amalda mucronata is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ancillariidae.[1] These snails live in the sandy subtidal near-shore environment where they eat bivalves. Fossil material of this species provides evidence of morphological stasis over 5 million years[2][3]
Shell description
The shell height is up to 61 mm, and the width is up to 27 mm.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to and occurs off New Zealand.[4]
References
- ↑ Gemmell, Michael R.; Trewick, Steven A.; Hills, Simon F. K.; Morgan‐Richards, Mary (2019). "Phylogenetic topology and timing of New Zealand olive shells are consistent with punctuated equilibrium" (in en). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 58 (1): 209–220. doi:10.1111/jzs.12342. ISSN 0947-5745. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jzs.12342.
- ↑ Michaux, B (1989). "Morphological variation of species through time". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 38 (3): 239–255. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1989.tb01577.x.
- ↑ Gould, Stephen Jay (1991). "Opus 200". Natural History 100 (8): 12–18.
- ↑ Michaux, B. (1987). "An analysis of allozymic characters of four species of New Zealand Amalda (Gastropoda: Olividae: Ancillinae)" (in en). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 14 (3): 359–366. doi:10.1080/03014223.1987.10423006. ISSN 0301-4223. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03014223.1987.10423006.
- Sowerby G.B. I (1830). Species Conchylirum or concise original descriptions and accompanied by figures of all the species of Recent shells, with their varieties. G.B. Sowerby, London.
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN:0-00-216906-1
- Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN:0-85467-054-8
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q3137685 entry
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