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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 exsculptus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Paratrophon exsculptus Powell, 1933
Images: Paratrophon cheesemani exsculptus Powell, 1933
Holotype, collected White Cliffs, NE of Pukearue, North Taranaki, NZ (MA70587). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Waikato, West Coast, NZ. 14mm
Waitara, Taranaki, NZ. 21mm
Found among the black mussel Xenostrobus neozelanicus, Taranaki, NZ. 18mm
At low/mid tide among Black Mussels, Waitara, Taranaki, NZ. 15-18mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Paratrophon (Genus)
> cheesemani exsculptus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Paratrophon exsculptus Powell, 1933
Details: Paratrophon cheesemani exsculptus Powell, 1933
Size/Grows to:
Height 23mm, Width 13mm
Distribution:
West Coast North and South Islands from Port Waikato to Jackson Bay, south of Haast
Geographical Range:
CFE.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.178)
  • Sep/1966 Notes of Interest: Paratrophon exsculphus, Poirieria, 3(4-5) (p.56)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1933 On five new species of recent New Zealand Mollusca, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 20(5) (p.197) 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