NZ Mollusca - Maurea punctulata

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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)

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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

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WoRMS (Marine Species)

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

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Details: Maurea punctulata (Martyn, 1784)

Size/Grows to:

Height 52mm, Width 47mm

Distribution:

North, South and Stewart Island

Geographical Range:

ACF

Notes:

Marine, Native - Endemic

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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

Key to 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.

Kermadec Islands

Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape

Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island

Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island

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