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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. © rights reserved
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:
King and Middlesex Banks, and Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands, from 0-188m
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

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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