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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
VELUTINIDAE: LAMELLARIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Cypraeoidea (Superfamily)
> Velutinidae (Family)
> Lamellariinae (Subfamily)
> Lamellaria (Genus)
> ophione (Species)
Images: Lamellaria ophione Gray, 1850
In beach drift, Rarawa, Far North, NZ. 8mm
Alive under a rock at low tide, Far North, NZ. 10-12mm
Alive under a rock at low tide, Far North, NZ. 10-12mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
VELUTINIDAE: LAMELLARIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Cypraeoidea (Superfamily)
> Velutinidae (Family)
> Lamellariinae (Subfamily)
> Lamellaria (Genus)
> ophione (Species)
Details: Lamellaria ophione Gray, 1850
Size/Grows to:
Length 18mm, Width 15mm
Distribution:
Raoul Island, King Bank, Three Kings Islands, North Island, and western South Island (Smoothwater Bay, SW of Haast)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Morley, M.S., Hayward, B.W. 2015 Intertidal records of 'sea slugs' (nudibranchs and allied opisthobranch gastropods) from northern North Island, New Zealand, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 50 (p.78)
  • 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.219)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.150)
  • Gray, J.E. 1850 Description of a new genus and several new species of terrestrial, fluviatile, and marine molluscous animals inhabiting New Zealand, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 17 (p.169) Original Description

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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