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Serrata fasciata

Key to Geographical Ranges

The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approxomation of the range of each species within New Zealand.

Kermadec Islands

Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape

Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island

Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island

Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island

An=

Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand

FW =

Freshwater

L =

Land

E =

Endemic

I =

Introduced

Serrata fasciata (G.B.Sowerby II, 1846)

Classification:	Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Marginellidae (Family) > Marginellinae (Subfamily) > Serrata (Genus)
Family: Subfamily	MARGINELLIDAE: MARGINELLINAE
Size/Grows to:	Height 8mm, Width 4mm
Synonyms:	(=Haloginella) (=mustelina of authors not Angas)
Distribution:	Three Kings Islands, Far North, and north-eastern North Island to Mahia Peninsula, under stones intertidally to about 22 metres
Geographical Range:	[AC]
Notes:	Endemic

References and Publications:

Marshall, B.A. 2004: New names for four common Marginellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from northern New Zealand, Molluscan Research, 24 (p.8)
Beu, A.G., Maxwell, P.A. 1990: Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey, 58 (p.415)
Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.218)

Note: Localities are approximate, and represent only some of the known localities for the species.