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Taxonomy
Family:
RISSOIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Rissooidea (Superfamily)
> Rissoidae (Family)
> Simulamerelina (Genus)
> gemmata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Manzonia (Simulamerelina) gemmata (Powell, 1927) accepted, alternate representation
=Manzonia gemmata (Powell, 1927)
=Merelina gemmata Powell, 1927
Images: Simulamerelina gemmata Powell, 1927
Holotype, collected Lady Alice (Big Chicken) Island, Hen & Chicken Islands, Hauraki Gulf, NZ (MA72094). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
RISSOIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Rissooidea (Superfamily)
> Rissoidae (Family)
> Simulamerelina (Genus)
> gemmata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Manzonia (Simulamerelina) gemmata (Powell, 1927) accepted, alternate representation
=Manzonia gemmata (Powell, 1927)
=Merelina gemmata Powell, 1927
Details: Simulamerelina gemmata Powell, 1927
Size/Grows to:
Height 2.9mm, Width 1.25mm
Distribution:
Northland east coast
Geographical Range:
A
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Criscione, F., Ponder, W.F. 2011 A review of the Recent Australian species of Merelina Iredale, 1915 (Caenogastropoda: Rissoidae), Molluscan Research, 31(2) (p.81)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.108)
  • Gardner, N.W. Dec/1977 The species of Merelina Iredale, (Rissoidae), occurring in intertidal drift, Poirieria, 9(3) (p.54)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1927 The genetic relationships of Australasian rissoids. Part 1. Descriptions of new recent genera and species from New Zealand and the Kermadec Islands, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 57 (p.537) 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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