Amalda bathamae
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| Shell of Amalda bathamae (holotype at the Museum of New Zealand) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Ancillariidae |
| Genus: | Amalda |
| Species: | A. bathamae
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| Binomial name | |
| Amalda bathamae (Dell, 1956)
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Amalda bathamae is a species of small deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ancillariidae.[1]
Taxonomy
[edit]Status unbcertain.[1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 37 mm, its diameter 19 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off eastern Otago, South Island, and off Bounty Islands[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Amalda bathamae (Dell, 1956). 16 October 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ New Zealand Mollusca: Amalda bathamae
- Dell, R.K. (1956). "The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand". Dominion Museum Bulletin.: 124.
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Hart, M.R. "Review of the genus Amalda from New Zealand with a description of a new species & the elevation of another subspecies to full species status". World Shell.
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