Opalia ahiparana

Opalia ahiparana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; informal group Ptenoglossa
Superfamily:	Epitonioidea
Family:	Epitoniidae
Genus:	Opalia
Species:	O. ahiparana
Binomial name
	Opalia ahiparana; Powell, 1930
Synonyms
	Nodiscala ahiparana (Powell, 1930); Pliciscala ahiparana Powell, 1930 (original combination);

Opalia ahiparana is a species of very small deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps.^[1]

Distribution edit

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand.

^ Bouchet, P. (2014). Opalia ahiparana. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=524049 on 2014-12-01

Powell A.W.B. (1930) New species of New Zealand Mollusca from shallow-water dredgings. Part 1. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 60: 532-543. page(s): 541
Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

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