Mauidrillia acuta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Horaiclavidae
Genus:	Mauidrillia
Species:	M. acuta
Binomial name
Mauidrillia acuta (Marwick, 1928)
Synonyms [1]
† Inquisitor acutusJ.Marwick, 1928

Mauidrillia acuta is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae. ^[1]

Contents

• Description
• Distribution
• References

Description

The length of the shell attains 12.5 mm, its diameter 4 mm. This marine genus ranges across the Indo-West Pacific, encompassing the Red Sea and East Africa to Japan, as well as along the coast of Australia.

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Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Tertiary strata of the Chatham Islands and Pitt Island, New Zealand.

References

• Marwick, J. "The Tertiary Mollusca of the Chatham Islands including a generic revision of the New Zealand Pectinidae." Transactions of the New Zealand institute. Vol. 58. No. 4. 1928
• 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