Kurtzia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Kurtzia | |
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Drawing of a shell of Kurtzia granulatissima | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Mangeliidae |
Genus: | Kurtzia Bartsch, 1944 |
Type species | |
Mangilia arteaga Dall & Bartsch, 1910
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Species | |
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Fossil species have been in Pliocene strata of Panama, Miocene strata in Central Chile and in Quaternary strata in California, USA
Species within the genus Kurtzia include: