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Taxonomy
Family:
PECTINODONTIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Patellogastropoda (Subclass)
> Lottioidea (Superfamily)
> Pectinodontidae (Family)
> Pectinodonta (Genus)
> morioria (Species)
Images: Pectinodonta morioria B.A. Marshall, 1985
Trawled on sunken wood, 550-600 metres, off Cape Foulwind, NZ. 10mm. © rights reserved
Off Aldermen Islands, Bay of Plenty, in 400 metres, in wood crevices. 8mm. © rights reserved
Holotype, collected 28 Sep 1982, NE of Mernoo Bank, Chatham Rise, NZ (M.076090). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Off Hokitika 490- 440 metres, Northern Westland, NZ. © rights reserved
Off Hokitika 490- 440 metres, Northern Westland, NZ. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family:
PECTINODONTIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Patellogastropoda (Subclass)
> Lottioidea (Superfamily)
> Pectinodontidae (Family)
> Pectinodonta (Genus)
> morioria (Species)
Details: Pectinodonta morioria B.A. Marshall, 1985
Size/Grows to:
Length 10.2mm, Width 8.0mm
Distribution:
Bay of Plenty south, from 400-1300 metres
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, On sunken wood
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 1998 A new deep-sea limpet of the genus Pectinodonta Dall, 1882 from New Zealand, and new distribution records for P. aupouria and P. morioria Marshall, 1985, The Nautilus, 112(2) (p.57)
  • Marshall, B.A. 1985 Recent and Tertiary deep-sea limpets of the genus Pectinodonta Dall (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 12(2) (p.279) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

NZ Geographical Regions
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Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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