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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
OVULIDAE: PEDICULARIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Cypraeoidea (Superfamily)
> Ovulidae (Family)
> Pediculariinae (Subfamily)
> Pedicularia (Genus)
> pacifica (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Pedicularia maoria Powell, 1937
=Pediculariona stylasteris (Hedley, 1903)
Images: Pedicularia pacifica Pease, 1865
Off the Three Kings Islands, Far North. On Pink and White coral from 200 metres. 9mm
Off the Three Kings Islands, Far North. On Red coral. 5mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
OVULIDAE: PEDICULARIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Cypraeoidea (Superfamily)
> Ovulidae (Family)
> Pediculariinae (Subfamily)
> Pedicularia (Genus)
> pacifica (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Pedicularia maoria Powell, 1937
=Pediculariona stylasteris (Hedley, 1903)
Details: Pedicularia pacifica Pease, 1865
Size/Grows to:
Length 9mm
Distribution:
Wanganella, Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and southern North Island and Chatham Rise. Also central Pacific, New South Wales
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.152)
  • Nov/1972 Pedicularia pacifica, Poirieria, 6(5)
  • Cernohorsky, W.O. 1971 Fossil and recent Cypraeacea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of New Zealand with descriptions of new species, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 8 (p.116)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1937 New Species of Marine Mollusca from New Zealand, Discovery Reports, 15 (p.208)

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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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