Meekospira ligoni Batten 1985 (snail)

Gastropoda - Caenogastropoda - Meekospiridae

Full reference: R. L. Batten. 1985. Gastropods and chitons from Perak, Malaysia. Part 3: the murchisoniids, cerithiids, loxonematids, and subulitids. American Museum Novitates 2829:1-40

Belongs to Meekospira according to R. L. Batten 1985

Sister taxa: Meekospira acrolopha, Meekospira bambooformis, Meekospira batteni, Meekospira baytuganensis, Meekospira choctawensis, Meekospira delgada, Meekospira evansvillensis, Meekospira knighti, Meekospira louisvillae, Meekospira mansuyi, Meekospira melanoides, Meekospira mimiae, Meekospira minuta, Meekospira mississippiensis, Meekospira peracuta, Meekospira solenisciforma, Meekospira sulcata, Meekospira symmetrica

Type specimen: AMNH 42856. Its type locality is H.S. Lee Mine No. 8, Kinta Valley near Kampar, which is in a Kungurian shallow subtidal limestone in the H.S. Lee Formation of Malaysia.

Ecology: epifaunal

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 0.944

Distribution: found only at H.S. Lee Mine No. 8, Kinta Valley near Kampar

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