Melanella badenia Laws 1939 (snail)

Gastropoda - Vanikoroidea - Eulimidae

Alternative combination: Balcis badenia

Full reference: C. R. Laws. 1939. The molluscan faunule at Pakaurangi Point, Kaipara - No. 1. Transactions and Proceedings of the royal Society of New Zealand 68(4):466-503

Belongs to Melanella according to A. G. Beu et al. 1990

See also Laws 1939

Sister taxa: Melanella (Melanella), Melanella (Polygyreulima), Melanella arnoldi, Melanella bolivarensis, Melanella coalingana, Melanella conoidea, Melanella dufresnei, Melanella eborea, Melanella fossilis, Melanella indicaformis, Melanella jacksonensis, Melanella jamaicensis, Melanella kaiparaensis, Melanella karsteni, Melanella migrans, Melanella seymourensis, Melanella thersites, Melanella waikomitica

Type specimen: Its type locality is Pakaurangi Point, Kaipara Harbour, which is in an Otaian coastal sandstone in the Pakaurangi Formation of New Zealand

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Pakaurangi Point, Kaipara Harbour

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