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Taxonomy
Family:
SILIQUARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Cerithioidea (Superfamily)
> Siliquariidae (Family)
> Tenagodus (Genus)
> maoria (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Agathirses Montfort, 1808
=Anguinaria Schumacher, 1817
=Pyxipoma Mörch, 1861
=Siliquaria Bruguière, 1789
=Tenagodes P. Fischer, 1885
=Tenagodus (Tenagodus) Guettard, 1770
Synonymised Names:
=Siliquaria maoria Powell, 1940
Images: Tenagodus maoria (Powell, 1940)
Found buried in sponges, off Northland, NZ. 23mm
Taxonomy
Family:
SILIQUARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Cerithioidea (Superfamily)
> Siliquariidae (Family)
> Tenagodus (Genus)
> maoria (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Agathirses Montfort, 1808
=Anguinaria Schumacher, 1817
=Pyxipoma Mörch, 1861
=Siliquaria Bruguière, 1789
=Tenagodes P. Fischer, 1885
=Tenagodus (Tenagodus) Guettard, 1770
Synonymised Names:
=Siliquaria maoria Powell, 1940
Details: Tenagodus maoria (Powell, 1940)
Size/Grows to:
Length 50mm
Distribution:
Northland to Cook Strait
Geographical Range:
AC
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.130)
  • Gardner, N.W. Sep/1963 Notes of Interest: Siliquaria maoria, Poirieria, 1(5)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1940 The Marine Mollusca of the Aupourian Province, New Zealand, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 70 (p.231) 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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