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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CALLIOSTOMATIDAE: CALLIOSTOMATINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Calliostomatidae (Family)
> Calliostomatinae (Subfamily)
> Maurea (Genus)
> osbornei (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Alertalex Dell, 1956
=Calliostoma (Calliotropis) W. R. B. Oliver, 1926
=Calliostoma (Maurea) W. R. B. Oliver, 1926
=Calliostoma (Mauriella) W. R. B. Oliver, 1926
=Calliotropis W. R. B. Oliver, 1926
=Calotropis Thiele, 1929
=Maurea (Alertalex) Dell, 1956
=Maurea (Mucrinops) Finlay, 1926
=Mauriella W. R. B. Oliver, 1926
=Mucrinops Finlay, 1926
=Venustas Finlay, 1926
=Venustas (Mucrinops) Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Calliostoma (Maurea) osbornei Powell, 1926
=Calliostoma osbornei Powell, 1926
Images: Maurea osbornei Powell, 1926
From about 15 metres, off the East Coast of Northland, living on the black Anchorina sponge. 33mm. © rights reserved
Holotype, collected c.49 metres, Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf, NZ (MA72037). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CALLIOSTOMATIDAE: CALLIOSTOMATINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Calliostomatidae (Family)
> Calliostomatinae (Subfamily)
> Maurea (Genus)
> osbornei (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Alertalex Dell, 1956
=Calliostoma (Calliotropis) W. R. B. Oliver, 1926
=Calliostoma (Maurea) W. R. B. Oliver, 1926
=Calliostoma (Mauriella) W. R. B. Oliver, 1926
=Calliotropis W. R. B. Oliver, 1926
=Calotropis Thiele, 1929
=Maurea (Alertalex) Dell, 1956
=Maurea (Mucrinops) Finlay, 1926
=Mauriella W. R. B. Oliver, 1926
=Mucrinops Finlay, 1926
=Venustas Finlay, 1926
=Venustas (Mucrinops) Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Calliostoma (Maurea) osbornei Powell, 1926
=Calliostoma osbornei Powell, 1926
Details: Maurea osbornei Powell, 1926
Size/Grows to:
Height 37mm, Width 28mm
Distribution:
Three Kings Islands and North Island as far south as Kapiti Island, from 0-233m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Spurgeon, A.M., Burch, K.W., Carson, K., Walton, K., Plaisted, J. Nov/2017 Notes on NZ Collected Species, Cookia, 29 (p.15)
  • Marshall, B.A. 1995 A revision of the Recent Calliostoma species of New Zealand (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochoidea), The Nautilus, 108(4) (p.96)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.62)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1926 Descriptions of six New Species and a New Genus of Gastropod Mollusca from Northern New Zealand, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 56 (p.591) 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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