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Volume 19, Issue 1: 19 May 1998
A new monoplacophoran (Mollusca) from southern New Zealand
Bruce A. Marshall
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa P.O. Box 467, Wellington, New Zealand
Micropilina rakiura n.sp. is described from southern New Zealand, the second monoplacophoran known from the western Pacific. One specimen appears to have been parasitised by a boring foraminiferan, a new record for the Monoplacophora.
Key words: Mollusca, Monoplacophora, Micropilina, new species, Foraminifera, parasite, New Zealand.
pp. 53-58.

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