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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
Off Aldermen Islands, Bay of Plenty, in 400 metres, in wood crevices. 8mm
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
Off Hokitika 490- 440 metres, Northern Westland, NZ
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
Geographical Range:
ACF
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)

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
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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