Pukeuria

Pukeuria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia informal group Lower Heterobranchia
Superfamily:	Pyramidelloidea
Family:	Pyramidellidae
Subfamily:	Chrysallidinae
Genus:	Pukeuria Laws, 1940
Species
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Pukeuria is a genus of very small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks or micromollusks. This genus is currently placed in the subfamily Chrysallidinae of the family Odostomiidae.

Shell description

The original genus description, and the description of the type species (Laws 1941) can be found at: [1]

Life history

Nothing is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the Pyramidellidae sensu lato, they are most likely to be ectoparasites.

Species

Species within the genus Pukeuria include:

• Pukeuria anaglypta Laws, 1941 (Type species)

References

• Laws, C. R. (1941). "Review of the tertiary and Recent Neozelandic Pyramidellid Molluscs. (. The pyrgunillid genera and the genus Evalea". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 71 (1): 6–22 + plates 1–2.

External links

• Pukeura anaglypta illustration of type species