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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: MURICOPSINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Muricopsinae (Subfamily)
> Rolandiella (Genus)
> scotti (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Muricopsis (Rolandiella) B.A. Marshall & K.W. Burch, 2000
Synonymised Names:
=Muricopsis (Rolandiella) scotti B.A. Marshall & K.W. Burch, 2000
=Muricopsis scotti B.A. Marshall & K.W. Burch, 2000
Images: Rolandiella scotti (B.A. Marshall & K.W. Burch, 2000)
Scuba dived off Northland, NZ. 50mm
Off Northland, 5-8 metres, NZ. 45mm
Holotype, collected Feb 1992, Mathesons Bay, Leigh, NZ (M.138186). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: MURICOPSINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Muricopsinae (Subfamily)
> Rolandiella (Genus)
> scotti (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Muricopsis (Rolandiella) B.A. Marshall & K.W. Burch, 2000
Synonymised Names:
=Muricopsis (Rolandiella) scotti B.A. Marshall & K.W. Burch, 2000
=Muricopsis scotti B.A. Marshall & K.W. Burch, 2000
Details: Rolandiella scotti (B.A. Marshall & K.W. Burch, 2000)
Size/Grows to:
Height 60mm, Width 32mm
Distribution:
Three Kings Islands and NE North Island, 13-168 metres, living 8-40 metres
Geographical Range:
AE.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Scott, I. Oct/2000 Murexsul Feeding at Leigh, Poirieria, 26 (p.23)
  • Marshall, B.A., Burch, K.W. 2000 The New Zealand Recent species of Muricopsis Bucquoy, Dautzenberg and Dollfus, 1882 (Gastropoda: Muricidae), The Nautilus, 114(1) (p.26) Original Description
  • Scott, I. Apr/1989 A closer look at Muricopsis octogonus, Poirieria, 15(6) (p.6)

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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