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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
FISSURELLIDAE: DIODORINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Lepetellida (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)
> Lepetellida (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:
Southern North Island, from 113m
Type Data:
  • 150 metres, between Kapiti Island and Stephens Island, NZ, (holotype)
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

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