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Taxonomy
Family:
TROCHACLIDIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Seguenziida (Order)
> Seguenzioidea (Superfamily)
> Trochaclididae (Family)
> Acremodontina (Genus)
> poutama (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Conjectura poutama E.C. Smith, 1962
Images: Acremodontina poutama (E.C. Smith, 1962)
Holotype of Conjectura poutama, collected Jun 1955, off Poutama Island, South Cape, NZ (M.020251). 2mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
TROCHACLIDIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Seguenziida (Order)
> Seguenzioidea (Superfamily)
> Trochaclididae (Family)
> Acremodontina (Genus)
> poutama (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Conjectura poutama E.C. Smith, 1962
Details: Acremodontina poutama (E.C. Smith, 1962)
Size/Grows to:
Height 2.0mm, Width 1.8mm
Distribution:
Stewart and Snares Islands, SW South Island, 26-55 metres (dead to 183 metres)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 1995 Recent and Tertiary Trochaclididae from the southwest Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochoidae), The Veliger, 38(2) (p.111)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.74)
  • Smith, E.C. 1962 Studies in the Stewart Island Mollusca. No. 1, Records of the Dominion Museum, 4(6) (p.50) Original Description

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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