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Taxonomy
Family:
CINGULOPSIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Cingulopsoidea (Superfamily)
> Cingulopsidae (Family)
> Skenella (Genus)
> spadix (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Eatoniopsis (Rufodardanula) Ponder, 1965
=Rufodardanula Ponder, 1965
=Skenella (Rufodardanula) Ponder, 1965 accepted, alternate representation
Synonymised Names:
=Rufodardanula spadix Ponder, 1965
=Skenella (Rufodardanula) spadix (Ponder, 1965) accepted, alternate representation
Images: Skenella spadix (Ponder, 1965)
Paratype, collected in Jan 1964, Goat Island Bay, Leigh, Auckland, NZ (MA72836). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
CINGULOPSIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Cingulopsoidea (Superfamily)
> Cingulopsidae (Family)
> Skenella (Genus)
> spadix (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Eatoniopsis (Rufodardanula) Ponder, 1965
=Rufodardanula Ponder, 1965
=Skenella (Rufodardanula) Ponder, 1965 accepted, alternate representation
Synonymised Names:
=Rufodardanula spadix Ponder, 1965
=Skenella (Rufodardanula) spadix (Ponder, 1965) accepted, alternate representation
Details: Skenella spadix (Ponder, 1965)
Size/Grows to:
Height 0.9mm, Width 0.6mm
Distribution:
Far North and Northland East Coast to Bay of Plenty
Geographical Range:
A
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Ponder, W.F., Yoo, E.K. 1980 A review of the genera of the Cingulopsidae with a revision of the Australian and tropical Indo-Pacific species. (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia), Records of the Australian Museum, 33(1) (p.35)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.117)
  • Ponder, W.F. 1965 A revision of the New Zealand recent species previously known as Notosetia Iredale, 1915 (Rissoidae, Gastropoda), Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 6(2) (p.124) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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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