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Taxonomy
Family:
SPIRULIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Cephalopoda (Class)
> Coleoida (Subclass)
> Decapodiformes (Superorder)
> Spirulida (Order)
> Spirulidae (Family)
> Spirula (Genus)
> spirula (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Lituus Gray, 1847
Synonymised Names:
=Spirula australis Lamarck, 1816
=Spirula peronii Lamarck, 1822
=Spirula prototypus Péron, 1804
=Spirula reticulata Owen, 1848
=Spirulea prototypos Péron, 1807
Images: Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Washed up on Tokerau Beach, Northland, NZ. 20mm
Washed up on Tokerau Beach, Northland, NZ. 21mm
Taxonomy
Family:
SPIRULIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Cephalopoda (Class)
> Coleoida (Subclass)
> Decapodiformes (Superorder)
> Spirulida (Order)
> Spirulidae (Family)
> Spirula (Genus)
> spirula (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Lituus Gray, 1847
Synonymised Names:
=Spirula australis Lamarck, 1816
=Spirula peronii Lamarck, 1822
=Spirula prototypus Péron, 1804
=Spirula reticulata Owen, 1848
=Spirulea prototypos Péron, 1807
Details: Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Size/Grows to:
Length 24mm, Width 18mm
Distribution:
North, South, Stewart, Chatham Islands, and Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
KACFM
Notes:
Rams Horn, Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Eagle, M.K. Oct/2013 The small, enigmatic Cephalopod Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758) (Decabrachia, Suborder Spirulina) from the Tasman Sea, Poirieria, 37 (p.13)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.439)
  • Linnaeus, C. 1758 Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae, 1 (p.710) Original Description

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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