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Taxonomy
Family:
SCISSURELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Lepetelllida (Order)
> Scissurelloidea (Superfamily)
> Scissurellidae (Family)
> Scissurella (Genus)
> bountyensis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Maxwellella Bandel, 1998
=Praescissurella Lozouet, 1998
=Reussella Bandel, 1998
=Schismope Jeffreys, 1856
=Woodwardia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1861
Images: Scissurella bountyensis Powell, 1933
Paratype, collected off Bounty Islands, NZ (MA72370). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
SCISSURELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Lepetelllida (Order)
> Scissurelloidea (Superfamily)
> Scissurellidae (Family)
> Scissurella (Genus)
> bountyensis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Maxwellella Bandel, 1998
=Praescissurella Lozouet, 1998
=Reussella Bandel, 1998
=Schismope Jeffreys, 1856
=Woodwardia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1861
Details: Scissurella bountyensis Powell, 1933
Size/Grows to:
Height 0.62mm, Width 0.88mm
Distribution:
Off Bounty Islands
Geographical Range:
An
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.34)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1933 Marine Mollusca from the Bounty Islands, Records of the Canterbury Museum, 4 (p.34) 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