Kuroshioturris angustata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Kuroshioturris angustata (Powell, 1940). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599044 on 2021-04-18
Description The length of the shell attains 16.5 mm.
Distribution This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs at depths between 30 m to 300 m. all around northern and eastern New Zealand. It is also known as a fossil in Mangapanian strata or earliest Nukumaruan strata.
References
Shuto T. (1961). Conacean gastropods from the Miyazaki Group (Paleontological study of the Miyazaki Group-IX). Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyūsyū University. Series D, Geology. 11(2): 71-150, pls 3-10. Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 p
External links
Powell, A.W.B. (1940) The marine Mollusca of the Aupourian Province, New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 70, 205–248. Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295 Beu, A.G. 2011 Marine Molluscs of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 41, 1–153 Gastropods.com: Kuroshioturris angustata