Wairarapa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.Marshall, B. (2015). Wairarapa. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432590 on 2016-12-11
Description This genus was proposed by Vella in 1954 for species resembling Splendrillia, but having a different protoconch, another subsutural fold and showing a stromboid notch.
Distribution The species type of this genus is extinct and was endemic to New Zealand. W. duplaris occurs off North Australia to Queensland, Australia.
Species Wairarapa duplaris (Hedley, 1922) † Wairarapa rebecca Vella, 1954
References
Hedley, Charles. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Vol. 13. 1922
External links Vella, Paul. "Tertiary Mollusca from south-east Wairarapa." Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Vol. 81. No. 4. 1954. Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.