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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
Images: Euprotomus vomer (Röding, 1798)
Off Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, NZ. 77mm
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 and north-eastern North Island (Berghan Point)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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)
  • 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)
  • 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)

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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