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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: MURICINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Muricinae (Subfamily)
> Timbellus (Genus)
> flemingi (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Pterynotus flemingi Beu, 1967
Images: Timbellus flemingi (Beu, 1967)
Collected 05 Nov 2000, Rungapapa Knoll, W of White Island, NZ (M.154288). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Colville Ridge, 670 metres, off Kermadec Islands. 34mm. K.W.Burch Collection
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: MURICINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Muricinae (Subfamily)
> Timbellus (Genus)
> flemingi (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Pterynotus flemingi Beu, 1967
Details: Timbellus flemingi (Beu, 1967)
Size/Grows to:
Height 35mm
Distribution:
Trawled off Three Kings Islands, and Northland to Palliser Bay
Geographical Range:
AC
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Beu, A.G., Maxwell, P.A. 1990 Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey, 58 (p.264)
  • Houart, R. 1989 Description of a new species of Pterynotus (Mollusca: Gastropod: Muricidae) from Norfolk Island, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 16(2) (p.276)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.172)
  • Beu, A.G. 1970 New Zealand Gastropod Mollusca of the Genus Pteropurpura Jousseaume, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 12(12) (p.138)
  • Beu, A.G. 1967 Deep-water Pliocene Mollusca from Palliser Bay, New Zealand, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 5 (p.102) 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
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil