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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
In beach drift, Ngunguru, Whangarei, NZ. 4.75mm
In beach drift, Ngunguru, Whangarei, NZ. 4.75mm
In beach drift, Bland Bay, Northland, in beach drift. 6mm
In beach drift, Bland Bay, Northland, in beach drift. 6mm
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:
North Island to Cook Strait. In shell sand
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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Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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