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Taxonomy
Family:
UMBRACULIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Umbraculida (Order)
> Umbraculoidea (Superfamily)
> Umbraculidae (Family)
> Umbraculum (Genus)
> umbraculum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Gastroplax Blainville, 1819
=Umbrella Lamarck, 1819
Synonymised Names:
=Patella sinica Gmelin, 1791
=Patella umbraculum Lightfoot, 1786
=Umbraculum botanicum Hedley, 1923
=Umbraculum sinicum (Gmelin, 1791)
Images: Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786)
In a rock pool, with eggs, Northland, NZ. 60mm
Found from low water down to scuba diving depths. These two were seen intertidally in a rock pool near Matai Bay, Northland, NZ
Karikari Peninsula, Northland, NZ
Taxonomy
Family:
UMBRACULIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Umbraculida (Order)
> Umbraculoidea (Superfamily)
> Umbraculidae (Family)
> Umbraculum (Genus)
> umbraculum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Gastroplax Blainville, 1819
=Umbrella Lamarck, 1819
Synonymised Names:
=Patella sinica Gmelin, 1791
=Patella umbraculum Lightfoot, 1786
=Umbraculum botanicum Hedley, 1923
=Umbraculum sinicum (Gmelin, 1791)
Details: Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786)
Size/Grows to:
Length 100mm, Width 80mm
Distribution:
Northland to Bay of Plenty and Mahia
Geographical Range:
KAC
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Morley, M.S., Hayward, B.W. 2015 Intertidal records of 'sea slugs' (nudibranchs and allied opisthobranch gastropods) from northern North Island, New Zealand, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 50 (p.77)
  • Morley, M.S., Hayward, B.W., Raven, J.L., Foreman, G.A., Grenfell, H.R. 2006 Intertidal and shallow subtidal biota of Mahia Peninsula, Hawkes Bay, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 43 (p.35)
  • Willan, R.C., Burn, R. 2003 On the publication date, authorship, and type species of Umbraculum and Tylodina (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Tylodinoidea): A rejoinder, The Nautilus, 117(1) (p.25)
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.231)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.283)

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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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