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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:
King Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Motuhora (Whale) Island, from 0-622m
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)

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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