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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
NATICIDAE: POLINICINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Naticoidea (Superfamily)
> Naticidae (Family)
> Polinicinae (Subfamily)
> Friginatica (Genus)
> conjuncta (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=amphiala of authors not R.B. Watson
Images: Friginatica conjuncta Dell, 1953
Holotype, collected 4 Nov 1950, Chatham Rise, NZ (M.005668). 8.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
NATICIDAE: POLINICINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Naticoidea (Superfamily)
> Naticidae (Family)
> Polinicinae (Subfamily)
> Friginatica (Genus)
> conjuncta (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=amphiala of authors not R.B. Watson
Details: Friginatica conjuncta Dell, 1953
Size/Grows to:
Height 8.5mm, Width 7.5mm
Distribution:
Eastern South Island and Chatham Rise, from 302-660m
Type Data:
  • 360 metres, Chatham Rise, NZ, (holotype, paratype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Beu, A.G. 1979 Bathyal Nukumaruan mollusca from Oaro, southern Marlborough, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 22(1) (p.91)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.157)
  • Dell, R.K. 1953 A molluscan fauna from the Chatham Rise, New Zealand., Records of the Dominion Museum, 2(1) (p.43) 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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