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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
TROCHIDAE: CANTHARIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Trochidae (Family)
> Cantharidinae (Subfamily)
> Roseaplagis (Genus)
> rufozona (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cantharidus rufozona A. Adams, 1853
=Canthiridus rufozona A. Adams, 1853
=Micrelenchus (Plumbelenchus) rufozona (A. Adams, 1853)
=Micrelenchus rufozona (A. Adams, 1853)
Images: Roseaplagis rufozona A. Adams, 1853
In beach drift at Tokerau Beach, Northland, NZ. 7mm. © rights reserved
In beach drift, Ngunguru, Whangarei, NZ. 4.75mm. © rights reserved
In beach drift, Ngunguru, Whangarei, NZ. 4.75mm. © rights reserved
In beach drift, Bland Bay, Northland, in beach drift. 6mm. © rights reserved
In beach drift, Bland Bay, Northland, in beach drift. 6mm. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
TROCHIDAE: CANTHARIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Trochidae (Family)
> Cantharidinae (Subfamily)
> Roseaplagis (Genus)
> rufozona (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cantharidus rufozona A. Adams, 1853
=Canthiridus rufozona A. Adams, 1853
=Micrelenchus (Plumbelenchus) rufozona (A. Adams, 1853)
=Micrelenchus rufozona (A. Adams, 1853)
Details: Roseaplagis rufozona A. Adams, 1853
Size/Grows to:
Height 8mm, Width 7mm
Distribution:
Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and south-western North Island, and far northern South Island, from 0-550m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Donald, K.M., Spencer, H.G. 2016 Phylogeographic patterns in New Zealand and temperate Australian cantharidines (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae: Cantharidinae): Trans-Tasman divergences are ancient, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 100 (p.341)
  • Marshall, B.A. 1998 The New Zealand Recent species of Cantharidus Montfort, 1810 and Micrelenchus Finlay, 1926 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae), Molluscan Research, 19 (p.140)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.56)
  • Adams, A. 1853 Contributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae, a family of gasteropodous Mollusca, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 19 (p.170) Original Description

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Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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