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Taxonomy
Family:
TURBINIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Turbinidae (Family)
> Modelia (Genus)
> granosa (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Turbo Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised Names:
=Liotia (Arene) shandi Hutton, 1873
=Trochus granosus Martyn, 1784
=Turbo (Modelia) granosus (Martyn, 1784)
Images: Modelia granosa (Martyn, 1784)
Off Horseshoe Bay, Stewart Island, NZ. 66mm
Taxonomy
Family:
TURBINIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Turbinidae (Family)
> Modelia (Genus)
> granosa (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Turbo Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised Names:
=Liotia (Arene) shandi Hutton, 1873
=Trochus granosus Martyn, 1784
=Turbo (Modelia) granosus (Martyn, 1784)
Details: Modelia granosa (Martyn, 1784)
Size/Grows to:
Height 92mm, Width 90mm
Distribution:
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
Geographical Range:
ACFM
Notes:
Southern Cats Eye, Marine, Native - Endemic, Low tide to about 40 metres. More common in the south where it usually grows to a larger size
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.66)
  • Martyn, T. 1784 The universal conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known shells 1-4, vol 1-4 Original Description

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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
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