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Taxonomy
Family:
SCISSURELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Lepetelllida (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)
> Lepetelllida (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, South, Stewart, Chatham, Bounty and the Snares Islands
Geographical Range:
ACFMAn
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
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

*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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