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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Paratrophon (Genus)
> cheesemani (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Paratrophon cheesemani cheesemani (Hutton, 1882) accepted, alternate representation
=Polytropa cheesemani Hutton, 1882
Images: Paratrophon cheesemani (Hutton, 1882)
The Bluff, Ninety Mile Beach, Far North, NZ. 14mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Paratrophon (Genus)
> cheesemani (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Paratrophon cheesemani cheesemani (Hutton, 1882) accepted, alternate representation
=Polytropa cheesemani Hutton, 1882
Details: Paratrophon cheesemani (Hutton, 1882)
Size/Grows to:
Height 19mm, Width 11mm
Distribution:
North Island west coast, from Ninety Mile Beach to Kawhia
Geographical Range:
AC
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 1995 Molluscan and brachiopod taxa introduced by F.W. Hutton in The New Zealand Journal of Science, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 25 (p.497)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.178)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1882 Additions to the molluscan fauna of New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Science, 1(2) (p.69) Original Description

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