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Taxonomy
Family:
PRONEOMENIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Solenogastres (Class)
> Pachytegmentaria (Superorder)
> Cavibelonia (Order)
> Proneomeniidae (Family)
> Dorymenia (Genus)
> quincarinata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Proneomenia quincarinata Ponder, 1970
Images: Dorymenia quincarinata Ponder, 1970
Holotype, collected 1 Feb 1954, E of Forty Fours, Chatham Islands, NZ (M.023193). ~50mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
PRONEOMENIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Solenogastres (Class)
> Pachytegmentaria (Superorder)
> Cavibelonia (Order)
> Proneomeniidae (Family)
> Dorymenia (Genus)
> quincarinata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Proneomenia quincarinata Ponder, 1970
Details: Dorymenia quincarinata Ponder, 1970
Size/Grows to:
Animal 52mm
Distribution:
North Island. Wellington, and Chatham Islands
Geographical Range:
CM
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Salvini-Plawen, L.V. 2004 Contributions to the morphological diversity and classification of the order Cavibelonia (Mollusca: Solenogastres), Journal of Molluscan Studies, 70 (p.88)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.32)
  • Ponder, W.F. 1970 A new Aplacophoran from New Zealand, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 2(1) (p.47)

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing 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 approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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