Antiguraleus taranakiensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.Marshall, B. (2015). Antiguraleus rishworthi Vella, 1954 †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831683 on 7 March 2017 It is found in New Zealand.
A.G. Beu (2009) adopted Probebela for all the southern hemisphere taxa previously referred to Antiguraleus. "A.G. Beu and J.I. Raine (2009). Revised descriptions of New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca from Beu and Maxwell (1990). GNS Science miscellaneous series no. 27."
Description
The length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter is 4 mm. Distribution This extinct marine species occurred on New Zealand in Late Middle Miocene-Late Miocene strata (Waiauan-Kapitean).
References
Marwick J. (1926) 1926: New Tertiary Mollusca from North Taranaki. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 56: 317–33 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.