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Type: Articles
Published: 2006-09-15
Page range: 103–107
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A Recent pulmonate (Charopidae) originally described as a Jurassic marine vetigastropod from New Zealand

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, P.O. Box 467, Wellington, New Zealand
257 Otipua Road, Highfield, Timaru, New Zealand
8 Roswell Place, Islington, Christchurch, New Zealand
taxonomy Mocella Discocharopa

Abstract

Klebyella minuta Bandel, Gründel & Maxwell, 2000, originally described as a Jurassic marine gastropod of the Turbinidae (Liotiinae), is shown to be based on a shell of a Recent terrestrial pulmonate and referred to Mocella Iredale, 1915.