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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: TYPHINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Typhinae (Subfamily)
> Siphonochelus (Genus)
> solus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Siphonochelus (Siphonochelus) solus Vella, 1961 accepted, alternate representation
Images: Siphonochelus solus Vella, 1961
Holotype, collected 27 Feb 1957, off Mayor Island, NZ (M.020246). ~8mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: TYPHINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Typhinae (Subfamily)
> Siphonochelus (Genus)
> solus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Siphonochelus (Siphonochelus) solus Vella, 1961 accepted, alternate representation
Details: Siphonochelus solus Vella, 1961
Size/Grows to:
Height 8mm, Width 4mm
Distribution:
Western and north-eastern North Island and north-western South Island, 178-1029 metres
Geographical Range:
AC
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Houart, R. 2012 The Recent Typhinae (Gastropoda: Muricidae) of New Zealand, Molluscan Research, 32(3) (p.142)
  • D'Atillio, A., Hertz, C.M. 1988 An Illustrated catalogue of the family Typhidae Cossmann, 1903 (Gastropoda: Muricacea), The Festivus (p.33)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.182)
  • Vella, P. 1961 Australasian Typhinae (Gastropoda) with notes on the subfamily, Palaeontology, 4(3) (p.388) 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