Ziba fijiensis

Ziba fijiensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Subfamily:	Mitrinae
Genus:	Ziba
Species:	Z. fijiensis
Binomial name
	Ziba fijiensis; (Ladd, 1934)
Synonyms
	† Mitra (Cancilla) menkrawitensis Beets, 1941; † Mitra (Tiara) fijiensis Ladd, 1934 (superseded combination); † Mitra fijiensis Ladd, 1934 (superseded combination); † Mitra menkrawitensis Beets, 1941;

Ziba fijiensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.^[1]

Distribution[edit]

Fossils of this marine species were found in Late Miocene strata on Fiji and Borneo.

^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Ziba fijiensis (Ladd, 1934) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1320549 on 2023-11-22

Ladd, H. S. (1934). Geology of Viti Levu, Fiji. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 119: 1–263.
Beets, C. (1941). Eine jungmiocäne Mollusken-Fauna von der Halbinsel Mangkalihat, Ost-Borneo. Verhandelingen van het Geologisch-Mijnbouwkundig Genootschap voor Nederland en Koloniën, Geologische Serie. 13(1): 1–219; plates 1–9.
Harzhauser M., Raven H., Landau B.M., Kocsis L., Adnan A., Zuschin M., Mandic O. & Briguglio A. (2018). Late Miocene gastropods from northern Borneo (Brunei Darussalam, Seria Formation). Palaeontographica, Abt. A: Palaeozoology – Stratigraphy. 313(1-3): 1-79.

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