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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)
> punctulata (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) punctulatum (Martyn, 1784)
=Calliostoma (Mauriella) punctulatum (Martyn, 1784)
=Calliostoma (Mauriella) punctulatum stewartianum W.R.B. Oliver, 1926
=Calliostoma (Mauriella) wanganuicum W.R.B. Oliver, 1926
=Calliostoma punctulatum (Martyn, 1784)
=Calliostoma punctulatum urbanior (Finlay, 1926)
=Maurea (Mucrinops) punctulata (Martyn, 1784)
=Trochus diaphanus Gmelin, 1791
=Trochus punctulatus Martyn, 1784
=Turbo grandineus Valenciennes, 1846
=Turbo pulcherrimus Noodt, 1819
=Turbo pulcherrimus Röding, 1798
=Venustas (Mucrinops) punctulata (Martyn, 1784)
=Venustas (Mucrinops) punctulata urbanior Finlay, 1926
=Venustas punctulata (Martyn, 1784)
=Venustas punctulata urbanior Finlay, 1926
Images: Maurea punctulata (Martyn, 1784)
From off Whangarei Heads, Northland, NZ. 33mm
From off Whangarei Heads, Northland, NZ. 35mm
Holotype of Maurea punctulatum stewartianum, collected no other data, NZ (M.000879). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype of Venustas punctulata urbanior Finlay, Foveaux Strait, NZ (MA70824). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Found on the Rainbow Warrior, Matauri Bay, Northland, NZ
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CALLIOSTOMATIDAE: CALLIOSTOMATINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Calliostomatidae (Family)
> Calliostomatinae (Subfamily)
> Maurea (Genus)
> punctulata (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) punctulatum (Martyn, 1784)
=Calliostoma (Mauriella) punctulatum (Martyn, 1784)
=Calliostoma (Mauriella) punctulatum stewartianum W.R.B. Oliver, 1926
=Calliostoma (Mauriella) wanganuicum W.R.B. Oliver, 1926
=Calliostoma punctulatum (Martyn, 1784)
=Calliostoma punctulatum urbanior (Finlay, 1926)
=Maurea (Mucrinops) punctulata (Martyn, 1784)
=Trochus diaphanus Gmelin, 1791
=Trochus punctulatus Martyn, 1784
=Turbo grandineus Valenciennes, 1846
=Turbo pulcherrimus Noodt, 1819
=Turbo pulcherrimus Röding, 1798
=Venustas (Mucrinops) punctulata (Martyn, 1784)
=Venustas (Mucrinops) punctulata urbanior Finlay, 1926
=Venustas punctulata (Martyn, 1784)
=Venustas punctulata urbanior Finlay, 1926
Details: Maurea punctulata (Martyn, 1784)
Size/Grows to:
Height 52mm, Width 47mm
Distribution:
North, South and Stewart Island
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 1995 A revision of the Recent Calliostoma species of New Zealand (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochoidea), The Nautilus, 108(4) (p.87)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.62)
  • Martyn, T. 1784 The universal conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known shells 1-4, vol 1-4 Original Description

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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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