Zeradina aculeata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vanikoridae.[1]
| Zeradina aculeata | |
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| Shell of Zeradina aculeata (holotype) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Vanikoridae |
| Genus: | Zeradina |
| Species: | †Z. aculeata
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| Binomial name | |
| †Zeradina aculeata Laws, 1939
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 3.2 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.
(Original description) The shell is small. The spire is high and narrow with a sharpened apex. The height of the spire is about ⅓ that of the body whorl. The whorls are convex. The suture is well cut-in, a little channelled. The two whorls of the protoconch are pointed with axial lamellae just below the suture for a short distance, spirals developing on the lower half of the last whorl. The body whorl is very long, convex in a broad sweep from suture to base. The aperture is ovate. The outer lip is effuse below. The inner lip is separated from the body anteriorly by a groove. The columella is long, thin and arcuate. It is set vertically. The axial sculpture, other than rude growth-plications, is lacking except on the first adult whorl where there are thin curved axial lamellae dependent on a short distance from the suture. Irregular weak spiral ridges and grooves are present over the surface of all whorls. None of these spirals are constantly more in evidence than others.[2]
Distribution
editFossils of this marine species were found in Tertiary strata at Kaipara, New Zealand.
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zeradina aculeata Laws, 1939 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=830533 on 2023-11-18
- ^ Laws, C. R. (1939). The molluscan faunule at Pakaurangi Point, Kaipara - No. 1. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 68: 466-503, pls 62-67
- 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.