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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
FISSURELLIDAE: DIODORINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Lepetelllida (Order)
> Fissurelloidea (Superfamily)
> Fissurellidae (Family)
> Diodorinae (Subfamily)
> Monodilepas (Genus)
> monilifera cookiana (Species)
Images: Monodilepas monilifera cookiana Dell, 1953
Holotype, collected 30 Aug 1951, W of Kapiti Island, NZ (M.005689). 11mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
FISSURELLIDAE: DIODORINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Lepetelllida (Order)
> Fissurelloidea (Superfamily)
> Fissurellidae (Family)
> Diodorinae (Subfamily)
> Monodilepas (Genus)
> monilifera cookiana (Species)
Details: Monodilepas monilifera cookiana Dell, 1953
Size/Grows to:
Length 11.5mm, Width 8.0mm, Height 3.1mm
Distribution:
Mahia to Cook Strait
Geographical Range:
C
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.41)
  • Dell, R.K. 1953 The molluscan genus Monodilepas in New Zealand, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 81 (p.149) Original Description

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