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Taxonomy
Family:
LAROCHEIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Lepetellida (Order)
> Scissurelloidea (Superfamily)
> Larocheidae (Family)
> Larochea (Genus)
> miranda (Species)
Images: Larochea miranda Finlay, 1927
Holotype, dredged off Awanui Heads, Rangaunu Bay, Northland, NZ (MA70386). 1.1mm. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
LAROCHEIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Lepetellida (Order)
> Scissurelloidea (Superfamily)
> Larocheidae (Family)
> Larochea (Genus)
> miranda (Species)
Details: Larochea miranda Finlay, 1927
Size/Grows to:
Width 1.1mm, Height 0.5mm
Distribution:
Off Northland, in shell sand
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 2002 Some Recent Scissurellids from the New Zealand region and remarks on some Scissurellid genus group names (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Vetigastropoda), Molluscan Research, 22 (p.179)
  • Morley, M.S. Mar/1995 Larochea miranda incubates its young, Poirieria, 17(3)
  • Marshall, B.A. 1993 The systematic position of Larochea Finlay, 1927, and introduction of a new genus and two new species (Gastropoda: Scissurellidae), Journal of Molluscan Studies, 59 (p.287)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.151)
  • Finlay, H. 1927 Additions to the recent molluscan fauna of New Zealand. No. 2, Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 57 (p.486) Original Description

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

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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