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Taxonomy
Family:
PTYCHATRACTIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Ptychatractidae (Family)
> Metzgeria (Genus)
> problematica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Volutomitra H. & A. Adams, 1853
Synonymised Names:
=Vexillum (Latiromitra) problematicum Ponder, 1968
Images: Metzgeria problematica (Ponder, 1968)
Trawled in deep water on the Bounty Plateau, NZ. 32mm
Holotype of Vexillum problematicum Ponder, collected 1967, E of Taiaroa Heads, NZ (M.021553). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
PTYCHATRACTIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Ptychatractidae (Family)
> Metzgeria (Genus)
> problematica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Volutomitra H. & A. Adams, 1853
Synonymised Names:
=Vexillum (Latiromitra) problematicum Ponder, 1968
Details: Metzgeria problematica (Ponder, 1968)
Size/Grows to:
Height 32mm, Width 12mm
Distribution:
Off Otago, trawled around 120 metres
Geographical Range:
FE.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic
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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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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