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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CALLIOSTOMATIDAE: FAUTRICINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Calliostomatidae (Family)
> Fautricinae (Subfamily)
> Selastele (Genus)
> onustum (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Calliostoma onustum Odhner, 1924
=Fautor onustum (Odhner, 1924)
Images: Selastele onustum (Odhner, 1924)
From deep water off the Three Kings Islands, Far North, NZ
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CALLIOSTOMATIDAE: FAUTRICINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Calliostomatidae (Family)
> Fautricinae (Subfamily)
> Selastele (Genus)
> onustum (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Calliostoma onustum Odhner, 1924
=Fautor onustum (Odhner, 1924)
Details: Selastele onustum (Odhner, 1924)
Size/Grows to:
Height 9mm, Width 5mm
Distribution:
Off Three Kings Islands and off Cape Reinga, 55-310 metres
Geographical Range:
A
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.118)
  • Marshall, B.A. 1979 The Trochidae and Turbinidae of the Kermadec Ridge (Mollusca: Gastropoda), New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 6(4) (p.538)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.63)
  • Odhner, N.H. 1924 Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914–1916. XIX. New Zealand Mollusca, Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjobenhavn, 77 (p.16) Original Description

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing 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.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
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
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