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Taxonomy
Family:
EPITONIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Epitonioidea (Superfamily)
> Epitoniidae (Family)
> Iphitus (Genus)
> neozelanicus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Iphitella Thiele, 1925
=Sculptifer Beu & Climo, 1974
=Stylotrochus Seguenza, 1876 (Invalid: junior homonym of Stylotrochus Haeckel, 1862)
Synonymised Names:
=Sculptifer neozelanica (Dell, 1956)
=Stilifer neozelanica Dell, 1956
=Stylotrochus neozelanicus (Dell, 1956)
Images: Iphitus neozelanicus (Dell, 1956)
Collected 1 Feb 1954, E of Forty Fours, NZ (M.009772). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected in deep sea coral, SW Chatham Rise, NZ. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family:
EPITONIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Epitonioidea (Superfamily)
> Epitoniidae (Family)
> Iphitus (Genus)
> neozelanicus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Iphitella Thiele, 1925
=Sculptifer Beu & Climo, 1974
=Stylotrochus Seguenza, 1876 (Invalid: junior homonym of Stylotrochus Haeckel, 1862)
Synonymised Names:
=Sculptifer neozelanica (Dell, 1956)
=Stilifer neozelanica Dell, 1956
=Stylotrochus neozelanicus (Dell, 1956)
Details: Iphitus neozelanicus (Dell, 1956)
Size/Grows to:
Height 3.3mm, Width 2.3mm
Distribution:
Tasmania, Louisville Ridge, and New Zealand. West Norfolk Ridge, Three Kings Islands, Three Kings Rise, South Cavalli Seamount, Curtis Island, North, South, Snares and Auckland Islands and Chatham Rise, from 238-1285m
Type Data:
  • 240 metres, E of Forty Fours, Chatham Islands, NZ, (holotype of Stilifer neozelanica Dell, 1956, paratype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.145)
  • Beu, A.G. 1978 Habitat and relationships of Iphitella neozelanica (Dell) (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae), New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 12(4) (p.391)
  • Beu, A.G., Climo, F.M. 1974 Mollusca from a recent coral community in Palliser Bay, Cook Strait, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 8(2) (p.324)
  • Dell, R.K. 1956 The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand, Dominion Museum Bulletin, 18 (p.82) Original Description

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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