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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CALLIOSTOMATIDAE: MARGARELLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Calliostomatidae (Family)
> Margarellinae (Subfamily)
> Margarella (Genus)
> macquariensis (Species)
Images: Margarella macquariensis Hedley, 1916
Collected 10 Feb 1965, off Macquarie Island, Sub-antarctic Islands. 8mm. © Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Collected 10 Feb 1965, off Macquarie Island, Sub-antarctic Islands. 8mm. © Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CALLIOSTOMATIDAE: MARGARELLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Calliostomatidae (Family)
> Margarellinae (Subfamily)
> Margarella (Genus)
> macquariensis (Species)
Details: Margarella macquariensis Hedley, 1916
Size/Grows to:
Width 11mm, Height 11mm
Distribution:
Macquarie Island, low tide to moderate depths
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.51)
  • Gardner, N.W. Mar/1976 About the Genus Margarella, Poirieria, 8(3) (p.57)
  • Hedley, C. 1916 Mollusca. Scientific Reports of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–1914. Under the Leadership of Sir Douglas Mawson, D. Sc., B. E.,, Scientific Results Series C.-Zoology and Botany, 1 (p.37) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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