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Taxonomy
Family:
SOLARIELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Solariellidae (Family)
> Bathymophila (Genus)
> dawsoni (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ethaliopsis Schepman, 1908
=Margarita (Bathymophila) Dall, 1881
=Solariella (Ethaliopsis) Schepman, 1908
Synonymised Names:
=Archiminolia dawsoni (B.A. Marshall, 1979)
=Microgaza dawsoni (B.A. Marshall, 1979)
=Solariella (Microgaza) dawsoni B.A. Marshall, 1979
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Taxonomy
Family:
SOLARIELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Solariellidae (Family)
> Bathymophila (Genus)
> dawsoni (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ethaliopsis Schepman, 1908
=Margarita (Bathymophila) Dall, 1881
=Solariella (Ethaliopsis) Schepman, 1908
Synonymised Names:
=Archiminolia dawsoni (B.A. Marshall, 1979)
=Microgaza dawsoni (B.A. Marshall, 1979)
=Solariella (Microgaza) dawsoni B.A. Marshall, 1979
Details: Bathymophila dawsoni (B.A. Marshall, 1979)
Size/Grows to:
Width 9.2mm, Height 7.4mm
Distribution:
Kermadec Ridge, NE of Raoul Island, 145 metres
Geographical Range:
K
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.32)
  • Marshall, B.A. 1979 The Trochidae and Turbinidae of the Kermadec Ridge (Mollusca: Gastropoda), New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 6(4) (p.533) Original Description

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