Amalda mucronata

Amalda mucronata
Conservation status
	Shell of Amalda mucronata (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Ancillariidae
Genus:	Amalda
Species:	A. mucronata
Binomial name
	Amalda mucronata; (Sowerby I, 1830)
Synonyms
	Amalda (Baryspira) mucronata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1830) alternative representation; Ancillaria mucronata G.B. Sowerby I, 1830 (original combination); † Baryspira erica Olson, 1956 (junior subjective synonym); † Baryspira gladiolaria Olson, 1956 (junior subjective synonym); Baryspira mucronata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1830);

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". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 58 (1): 209–220. doi:10.1111/jzs.12342. ISSN 0947-5745.
^ 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)". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 14 (3): 359–366. doi:10.1080/03014223.1987.10423006. ISSN 0301-4223.

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

Massey University NZ Fauna Scanned 3D model of Amalda mucronata fossil

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[1] 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". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 58 (1): 209–220. doi:10.1111/jzs.12342. ISSN 0947-5745.

[2] 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.

[3] Gould, Stephen Jay (1991). "Opus 200". Natural History. 100 (8): 12–18.

[4] Michaux, B. (1987). "An analysis of allozymic characters of four species of New Zealand Amalda (Gastropoda: Olividae: Ancillinae)". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 14 (3): 359–366. doi:10.1080/03014223.1987.10423006. ISSN 0301-4223.

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