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Buccinulum colensoi (Suter, 1908)Species Images
Found at low tide in rock crevices, Gisborne, NZ. 16-18mm
Holotype of Tritonidea colensoi Suter, 1908, collected East Cape lighthouse, NZ (M.001701). 18mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Alive under rocks at low tide, Castlepoint, Wairarapa, NZ. 20mm
Buccinulum colensoi (Suter, 1908)
Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Buccinoidea (Superfamily) > Buccinidae (Family) > Buccinulum (Genus) > colensoi (Species)
Family:
BUCCINIDAE
Size/Grows to:
Height 22mm, Width 11mm
Distribution:
North Island. East Cape to Wairarapa
Geographical Range:
CE.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Gemmell, M.R., Trewick, S.A., Crampton, J.S., Vaux, F., Hills, S.F.K., Daly, E.E., Marshall, B.A., Beu, A.G., Morgan-Richards, M. 2018 Genetic structure and shell shape variation within a rocky shore whelk suggest both diverging and constraining selection with gene flow, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 20 (p.1)
  • Foreman, G.A. Nov/1980 Buccinulum colensoi (Suter), Poirieria, 10(6) (p.95)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.199)
  • Ponder, W.F. 1971 A review of the New Zealand recent and fossil species of Buccinulum Deshayes (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Buccinidae), Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 1(3) (p.262)

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