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Taxonomy
Family:
STROMBIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Stromboidea (Superfamily)
> Strombidae (Family)
> Euprotomus (Genus)
> vomer (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Euprotomus kiwi Bozzetti & Sargent, 2011
=Lambis vomer Röding, 1798
=Strombus (Euprotomus) vomer (Röding, 1798)
=Strombus novaezelandiae Reeve, 1842
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Taxonomy
Family:
STROMBIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Stromboidea (Superfamily)
> Strombidae (Family)
> Euprotomus (Genus)
> vomer (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Euprotomus kiwi Bozzetti & Sargent, 2011
=Lambis vomer Röding, 1798
=Strombus (Euprotomus) vomer (Röding, 1798)
=Strombus novaezelandiae Reeve, 1842
Details: Euprotomus vomer (Röding, 1798)
Size/Grows to:
Height 22mm (NZ)
Distribution:
Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands. NZ record from Berghan Point, Doubtless Bay, Northland
Geographical Range:
KA
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Bozzetti, L., Sargent, D.M. 2011 A new species of Euprotomus (Gastropoda: Strombidae) from New Zealand and the Kermadec Islands, Visaya, 3(3) (p.23)
  • Marshall, B.A., Crosby, D.D. 1998 Occurrence of the tropical and subtropical gastropod Strombus vomer vomer (Röding, 1798) (Mollusca: Strombidae) off north-eastern Northland, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 32(1) (p.135)
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.218)

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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil