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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
TURRITELLIDAE: TURRITELLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Cerithioidea (Superfamily)
> Turritellidae (Family)
> Turritellinae (Subfamily)
> Zeacolpus (Genus)
> vittatus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus) Finlay & Marwick, 1937
=Zeacolpus (Zeacolpus) Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Turritella (Haustator) vittata Hutton, 1873
=Turritella carlottae R.B. Watson, 1881
=Turritella vittata Hutton, 1873
=Zeacolpus (Zeacolpus) vittatus (Hutton, 1873)
Images: Zeacolpus vittatus (Hutton, 1873)
Dredged in 25 metres, Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ. 67mm. © rights reserved
Lectotype of Turritella (Haustator) vittata, collected no other data. (M.120228). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected 9 March 1976, off shelf of flats inside Farewell Spit, Golden Bay, NZ (M.050000). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
TURRITELLIDAE: TURRITELLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Cerithioidea (Superfamily)
> Turritellidae (Family)
> Turritellinae (Subfamily)
> Zeacolpus (Genus)
> vittatus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus) Finlay & Marwick, 1937
=Zeacolpus (Zeacolpus) Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Turritella (Haustator) vittata Hutton, 1873
=Turritella carlottae R.B. Watson, 1881
=Turritella vittata Hutton, 1873
=Zeacolpus (Zeacolpus) vittatus (Hutton, 1873)
Details: Zeacolpus vittatus (Hutton, 1873)
Size/Grows to:
Height 99mm, Width 23mm
Distribution:
King Bank, Three Kings Islands, North Island, and far northern and south-western South Island (Doubtful Sound), from 0-200m
Type Data:
  • 18 metres, Queen Charlotte Sound, Marlborough Sounds, NZ, (holotype of Turritella carlottae R.B. Watson, 1881)
  • Stewart Island, NZ, (lectotype of Turritella (Haustator) vittata Hutton, 1873)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.126)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1873 Catalogue of the Marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species, Dominion Museum (NZ) (p.121) 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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