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Taxonomy
Family:
SOLARIELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Solariellidae (Family)
> Spectamen (Genus)
> plicatulum (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Minolia plicatula Murdoch & Suter, 1906
=Solariella plicatula (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Images: Spectamen plicatulum (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Holotype of Minolia plicatula Murdoch & Suter, 1906, collected 1914, off Cuvier Island, NZ (M.001124). 4mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
SOLARIELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Solariellidae (Family)
> Spectamen (Genus)
> plicatulum (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Minolia plicatula Murdoch & Suter, 1906
=Solariella plicatula (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Details: Spectamen plicatulum (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Size/Grows to:
Width 6mm, Height 4mm
Distribution:
Northern North Island as far south as New Plymouth
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 1999 A revision of the Recent Solariellinae (Gastropoda: Trochoidea) of the New Zealand Region, The Nautilus, 113(1) (p.6)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.64)
  • Murdoch, R., Suter, H. 1906 Results of dredging on the continental shelf of New Zealand., Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 38 (p.299) 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
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