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Litozamia subtropicalis (Iredale, 1912)
Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Trophoninae (Subfamily) > Litozamia (Genus) > subtropicalis (Species)
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: TROPHONINAE
Size/Grows to:
Height 3mm
Synonyms:
(=Trophon Montfort)
Distribution:
Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
KE.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Houart, R. 2013 Description of two new species of Trophoninae s.l. and Typhinae (Gastropda: Muricidae) from New Caledonia and comments on Litozamia Iredale, 1929 and Siphonochelus Jousseaume, 1880, Venus, 71 (p.6)
  • Barco, A., Schiaparelli, S., Houart, R., Oliverio, M. 2012 Cenozoic evolution of Muricidae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda) in the Southern Ocean, with the description of a new subfamily, Zoologica Scripta, 41 (p.606)
  • 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.225)
  • Iredale, T. 1912 New generic names and new species of marine Mollusca, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 10(3) (p.227)

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