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Taxonomy
Family:
CYMATIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Cymatiidae (Family)
> Proxicharonia (Genus)
> palmeri (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Charonia (Charoniella) Powell & Bartrum, 1929
=Charoniella Powell & Bartrum, 1929
Synonymised Names:
=Sassia palmeri (Powell, 1967)
Images: Proxicharonia palmeri Powell, 1967
Collected in deep water, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 53mm
From deep water off Northland, NZ
Off north end of Poor Knights Islands, Northland, NZ (MA71300). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
CYMATIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Cymatiidae (Family)
> Proxicharonia (Genus)
> palmeri (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Charonia (Charoniella) Powell & Bartrum, 1929
=Charoniella Powell & Bartrum, 1929
Synonymised Names:
=Sassia palmeri (Powell, 1967)
Details: Proxicharonia palmeri Powell, 1967
Size/Grows to:
Height 73mm
Distribution:
Off Northland east coast to Bay of Plenty and off East Cape, approx. 40-120 metres
Geographical Range:
KAE.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.165)
  • O'Neill, S. Oct/1974 Notes of Interest: Proxicharonia palmeri, Poirieria, 7(5) (p.100)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1967 New Zealand Molluscan Systematics with Descriptions of New Species: Part 6, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 6(3) (p.188) Original Description

*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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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