NZ Mollusca - Maurea selecta

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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)
> selecta (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 (Calliotropis) pagoda W.R.B. Oliver, 1926
=Calliostoma (Maurea) selectum (Dillwyn, 1817)
=Calliostoma carnicolor Preston, 1907
=Calliostoma cunninghamii (Gray, 1833)
=Calliostoma pagoda W.R.B. Oliver, 1926
=Calliostoma selectum (Dillwyn, 1817)
=Trochus cunninghami Gray, 1834
=Trochus selectus Dillwyn, 1817
=Venustas cunninghami (Gray, 1834)
=Venustas cunninghami regifica Finlay, 1927
=Zizyphinus hodgei Hutton, 1875
=Zizyphinus ponderosus Hutton, 1885

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WoRMS (Marine Species)

Images: Maurea selecta (Dillwyn, 1817)

Trawled by Scallop Boats, Chatham Islands, NZ. 48mm

Holotype of Calliostoma (Calliotropis) pagoda Oliver, 1926, collected off Cape Campbell, Marlborough, NZ (M.001602). 65mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

Collected 19 Sep 1987, W of Chatham Island, NZ (M.090061). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

Holotype of Venustas cunninghami regifica Finlay, trawled in 55 metres, off Taiaroa Head, Otago, NZ (MA70823). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)

Taxonomy

Family: Subfamily:

CALLIOSTOMATIDAE: CALLIOSTOMATINAE

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Details: Maurea selecta (Dillwyn, 1817)

Size/Grows to:

Width 67mm, Height 53mm

Distribution:

North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. 0-293 metres

Geographical Range:

ACFM

Notes:

Pale Tiger Shell, 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.108)
Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.61)
Hazelwood, B.F. Nov/1970 Items of Interest: Maurea cunninghami, Poirieria, 5(5) (p.82)
Dillwyn, L. 1817 A descriptive catalogue of Recent shells, arranged according to the Linnean method; with particular attention to the synonymy 2, London: John and Arthur Arch 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