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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)
> Mammilla (Genus)
> simiae (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Mamilla simiae (Deshayes, 1838)
=Mammilla propesimiae Iredale, 1929
=Natica samarensis Récluz, 1844
=Natica sigaretina Menke, 1828
=Natica simiae Deshayes, 1838
=Polinices (Mammilla) simiae (Deshayes, 1838)
=Polinices simiae (Deshayes, 1838)
Images: Mammilla simiae (Deshayes, 1838)
Washed up on the Northland east coast, NZ. 25mm. © rights reserved
Washed up on the Northland east coast, NZ. 25mm. © rights reserved
On sand flats Parengarenga Harbour, Far North, NZ. © rights reserved
Washed up in beach drift, Rarawa Beach, Far North, NZ. © rights reserved
Washed up in shell drift, Rarawa, Far North, NZ. 19mm. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
NATICIDAE: POLINICINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Naticoidea (Superfamily)
> Naticidae (Family)
> Polinicinae (Subfamily)
> Mammilla (Genus)
> simiae (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Mamilla simiae (Deshayes, 1838)
=Mammilla propesimiae Iredale, 1929
=Natica samarensis Récluz, 1844
=Natica sigaretina Menke, 1828
=Natica simiae Deshayes, 1838
=Polinices (Mammilla) simiae (Deshayes, 1838)
=Polinices simiae (Deshayes, 1838)
Details: Mammilla simiae (Deshayes, 1838)
Size/Grows to:
Height 36mm, Width 30mm
Distribution:
Kermadec Islands, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 0-89m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic, In beach drift and alive from low tide
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Raven, J.L. Nov/2011 Notes on New Zealand collected species, Cookia, 23 (p.18)
  • 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.220)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.156)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1934 Gastropods new to the New Zealand Fauna; with descriptions of six new Species and a new Subspecies, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 64 (p.156)
  • Oliver, W.R.B. 1915 The Mollusca of the Kermadec Islands, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 47 (p.524)

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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