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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
Geographical Range:
An
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)

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