Siliquaria senex Marwick 1926 (snail)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Siliquariidae

Full reference: J. Marwick. 1926. Molluscan fauna of the Waiarekan stage of the Oamaru Series. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 56:307-316

Belongs to Siliquaria according to J. Marwick 1926

Sister taxa: Tenagodus (Agathirses), Tenagodus (Pyxipoma), Tenagodus (Tenagodus), Tenagodus anguina, Tenagodus bajaensis, Tenagodus californiensis, Tenagodus cossmani, Tenagodus granti, Tenagodus obtusiformis, Tenagodus obtusus, Tenagodus occlusus, Tenagodus sowerbyi, Tenagodus terbellus, Tenagodus vitis, Siliquaria modesta, Siliquaria biparitita, Siliquaria triadica, Siliquaria cariboea, Siliquaria parva

Type specimen: Its type locality is Lorne, which is in a Kaiatan marine tuff in the Waiareka tuff Formation of New Zealand

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Lorne

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