| Phenatoma zealandica | |
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| abapertural view of the shell of Phenatoma zealandica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae [1] |
| Genus: | Phenatoma |
| Species: | P. zealandica |
| Binomial name | |
| Phenatoma zealandica (E. A. Smith, 1877) |
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Phenatoma zealandica, common name the new Zealand turrid, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Borsoniidae.[2]
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The size of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 15 mm.
This marine species occurs along New Zealand.