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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)
> Monstrotyphis (Genus)
> pauperis (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Typhis pauperis Mestayer, 1916
Images: Monstrotyphis pauperis (Mestayer, 1916)
Holotype, collected off Poor Knights Islands, NZ (M.001749). 7mm. © 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)
> Monstrotyphis (Genus)
> pauperis (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Typhis pauperis Mestayer, 1916
Details: Monstrotyphis pauperis (Mestayer, 1916)
Size/Grows to:
Height 10mm, Width 6mm
Distribution:
Northland to Bay of Plenty
Geographical Range:
A
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.139)
  • Houart, R. 2002 Description of a new Typhine (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from New Caledonia with comments on some generic classifications within the subfamily, Venus, 61 (p.149)
  • D'Atillio, A., Hertz, C.M. 1988 An Illustrated catalogue of the family Typhidae Cossmann, 1903 (Gastropoda: Muricacea), The Festivus (p.29)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.182)
  • Gardner, N.W. Jun/1965 Typhis pauperis, Poirieria, 2(5) (p.83)
  • Mestayer, M. 1916 Preliminary list of Mollusca from dredgings taken off the northern coasts of New Zealand., Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 48 (p.127) 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