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Cominella maculosa (Martyn, 1784)Species Images
Shallow water, Tutukaka Harbour, Northland. 45mm
Very common intertidal
Coming out of a rock pool at low tide
Cominella maculosa (Martyn, 1784)
Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Buccinoidea (Superfamily) > Buccinidae (Family) > Cominella (Genus) > maculosa (Species)
Family:
BUCCINIDAE
Size/Grows to:
Length 45mm, Width 23mm
Synonymised Names:
=Buccinum maculosum Martyn, 1784
=Buccinum testudineum Bruguière, 1789
=Cominella (Cominella) maculosa (Martyn, 1784) accepted, alternate representation
=Cominella testudinea (Bruguière, 1789)
=Harpa antiqua G.B. Sowerby I, 1825
Distribution:
North Island, northern part of South Island and Chatham Islands
Geographical Range:
ACME.
Notes:
Spotted Whelk, 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)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.192)

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