Wairarapa (gastropod)
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| Wairarapa | |
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| Wairarapa duplaris | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Wairarapa Vella, 1954 |
| Type species | |
| † Wairarapa rebecca Vella, 1954 | |
| Species | |
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Wairarapa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.[1]
This genus was proposed by Vella in 1954 for species resembling Splendrillia, but having a different protoconch, another subsutural fold and showing a stromboid notch
Distribution
The species type of this genus is extinct and was endemic to New Zealand. W. duplaris occurs off North Australia to Queensland, Australia.