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Taxonomy
Family:
SCISSURELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Lepetellida (Order)
> Scissurelloidea (Superfamily)
> Scissurellidae (Family)
> Sinezona (Genus)
> iota (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ariella Bandel, 1998
=Daizona Bandel, 1998
Synonymised Names:
=Schismope iota Finlay, 1926
Images: Sinezona iota (Finlay, 1926)
Holotype, collected off Snares Islands, 92 metres (MA70693). 0.9mm. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype, collected off Snares Islands, 92 metres (MA70693). 0.9mm. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
SCISSURELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Lepetellida (Order)
> Scissurelloidea (Superfamily)
> Scissurellidae (Family)
> Sinezona (Genus)
> iota (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ariella Bandel, 1998
=Daizona Bandel, 1998
Synonymised Names:
=Schismope iota Finlay, 1926
Details: Sinezona iota (Finlay, 1926)
Size/Grows to:
Height 0.9mm, Width 0.8mm
Distribution:
North-eastern North Island (Bay of Islands and Poor Knights Islands), and South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes, Bounty and Chatham Islands, and Pukaki Rise, from 0-805m
Type Data:
  • 91 metres, off Snares Islands, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Bandel, K. 1998 Scissurellidae als Modell für die Variationsbreite einer Natürlichen Einheit der Schlitzbandschnecken (Mollusca; Archaeogastropoda), Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-paläontogischen Institut der Universität Hamburg, 81 (p.62)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.34)
  • Finlay, H. 1926 A Further Commentary on New Zealand Molluscan Systematics, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 57 (p.340) Original Description

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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