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Taxonomy
Family:
TROCHACLIDIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Seguenziida (Order)
> Seguenzioidea (Superfamily)
> Trochaclididae (Family)
> Acremodontina (Genus)
> varicosa (Species)
Images: Acremodontina varicosa B.A. Marshall, 1995
Holotype, collected 27 Jun 1978, 24 km NW of Great Island, NZ (M.117559). 2.5mm. © 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)
> varicosa (Species)
Details: Acremodontina varicosa B.A. Marshall, 1995
Size/Grows to:
Height 2.67mm, Width 2.57mm
Distribution:
NW of Three Kings Islands, 192-805 metres. Also early Pliocene, Pitt Island, Chatham Islands
Notes:
Marine, Recent, Fossil, 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.103) 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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