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Taxonomy
Family:
THALASSOCYONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Thalassocyonidae (Family)
> Thalassocyon (Genus)
> tui (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Thalassocyon bonus Barnard, 1960
Images: Thalassocyon tui Dell, 1967
Trawled 980 metres, Challenger Plateau, NZ
Trawled 980 metres, Challenger Plateau, NZ
Holotype, collected 26 Jul 1962, Colville Ridge, W of Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, NZ (M.021299). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Trawled in 600 metres, North Chatham Rise, NZ
Trawled in 600 metres, North Chatham Rise, NZ
Trawled off Kaipara, North Island. 74mm
Taxonomy
Family:
THALASSOCYONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Thalassocyonidae (Family)
> Thalassocyon (Genus)
> tui (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Thalassocyon bonus Barnard, 1960
Details: Thalassocyon tui Dell, 1967
Size/Grows to:
Height 76mm, Width 47mm
Distribution:
From abyssal depths off South Africa, Amsterdam Is. (in the southern Indian Ocean), eastern Australia, Kermadec Islands, and northern New Zealand. Northland to Bay of Plenty
Geographical Range:
KA
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Warén, A., Bouchet, P. 1990 Laubierinidae and Pisanianurinae (Ranellidae), two new deep-sea taxa of the Tonnoidea (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia), The Veliger, 33(1) (p.87)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.163)
  • Aug/1969 Thalassocyon tui, Poirieria, 5(1)
  • Beu, A.G. 1969 The Gastropod genus Thalassocyon Bernard, 1960, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 3(3) (p.446)
  • Dell, R.K. 1967 Some Mollusca from deep water to the north of New Zealand, collected by the Tui, 1962, Records of the Dominion Museum, 5 (p.309) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
*88 © NIWA

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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