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Taxonomy
Family:
TURBINIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Turbinidae (Family)
> Lunella (Genus)
> smaragda (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Lunella (Lunella) Röding, 1798
=Lunella (Ninella) Gray, 1850
=Lunella (Subninella) Thiele, 1929
=Ninella Gray, 1850
=Subninella Thiele, 1929
=Turbo (Lunella) Röding, 1798
Synonymised Names:
=Turbo (Lunella) radina Webster, 1905
=Turbo (Turbo) smaragdus Gmelin, 1791
=Turbo radina Webster, 1905
=Turbo smaragdus Gmelin, 1791
=Turbo smaragdus var. tricostatus Hutton, 1884
=Turbo tricostatus Hutton, 1884
Images: Lunella smaragda (Gmelin, 1791)
Horseshoe Bay, Stewart Island, NZ. 70mm
Horseshoe Bay, Stewart Island, NZ. 76mm
In rock pools at low tide, Rarawa, Far North, NZ. 45mm
Juvenile showing radial ridges. In rock pool at low tide, Henderson Bay, Far North, NZ. 15-20mm
Juvenile showing spiral ridges. On rocks at low tide, Houhora Heads, Far North, NZ. 15mm
Taxonomy
Family:
TURBINIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Turbinidae (Family)
> Lunella (Genus)
> smaragda (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Lunella (Lunella) Röding, 1798
=Lunella (Ninella) Gray, 1850
=Lunella (Subninella) Thiele, 1929
=Ninella Gray, 1850
=Subninella Thiele, 1929
=Turbo (Lunella) Röding, 1798
Synonymised Names:
=Turbo (Lunella) radina Webster, 1905
=Turbo (Turbo) smaragdus Gmelin, 1791
=Turbo radina Webster, 1905
=Turbo smaragdus Gmelin, 1791
=Turbo smaragdus var. tricostatus Hutton, 1884
=Turbo tricostatus Hutton, 1884
Details: Lunella smaragda (Gmelin, 1791)
Size/Grows to:
Width 91mm, Height 84mm
Distribution:
North, South and Stewart Island. Also recently recorded from the Chatham Islands
Geographical Range:
ACFM
Notes:
Common Cats Eye, Pupu, Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Walton, K. Nov/2015 New records of intertidal and shallow sub-tidal (to 30 m) Mollusca from the Chatham Islands, Cookia, 27 (p.3)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.66)
  • Walsby, J.R. 1977 Population variation in the grazing turbinid Lunella smaragda (Mollusca: Gastropoda), New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 11(2) (p.211)

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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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