Puha hebes is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
| Puha hebes | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | †Puha |
| Species: | †P. hebes
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| Binomial name | |
| †Puha hebes (Hutton, 1873)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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† Pleurotoma hebes Hutton, 1873 | |
Description
edit(Original description) The shell is ovato-fusiform with a blunt spire. The whorls are rather angled and distantly spirally striated. The shell shows a spiral row of nodules along the keel. Above the keel it is smooth. The body whorl is larger than the spire. The siphonal canal has a moderate length.[2]
Distribution
editFossils of this marine species were found in New Zealand off Oamaru.
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Puha hebes (Hutton, 1873) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831739 on 2019-12-30
- ^ Hutton F. W. 1873. Catalogue of the Tertiary Mollusca and Echinodermata of New Zealand, in the collection of the Colonial Museum. Didsbury, Government Printer, Wellington. xvi + 48 pp
- 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.