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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)
> Terefundus (Genus)
> quadricinctus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Terefundus (Terefundus) Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Mangilia quadricincta Suter, 1908
=Terefundus (Terefundus) quadricinctus (Suter, 1908) accepted, alternate representation
Images: Terefundus quadricinctus (Suter, 1908)
500-600 metres, Papanui Canyon, off Otago Peninsula, NZ. 4mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Terefundus (Genus)
> quadricinctus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Terefundus (Terefundus) Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Mangilia quadricincta Suter, 1908
=Terefundus (Terefundus) quadricinctus (Suter, 1908) accepted, alternate representation
Details: Terefundus quadricinctus (Suter, 1908)
Size/Grows to:
Height 4.4mm, Width 2.1mm
Distribution:
South Island, from Otago south, and Snares Islands
Geographical Range:
FAnR.Fo.
Notes:
Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Houart, R. 2022 New species and genera of Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand, Novapex, 23(1) (p.25)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.177)
  • Suter, H. 1913 Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca, John MacKay, Government Printer, Wellington (p.503)
  • Suter, H. 1908 Descriptions of new species of New Zealand marine shells., Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 8 (p.187) Original Description

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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