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Taxonomy
Family:
CYMATIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Cymatiidae (Family)
> Cabestana (Genus)
> spengleri (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cabestana spengleri procerum (Iredale, 1929)
=Cymatium spengleri (Perry, 1811)
=Cymatium spengleri procerum Iredale, 1929
=Septa spengleri Perry, 1811
=Triton (Cabestana) boltenianus A. A. Adams, 1855
=Triton barthelemyi Bernardi, 1857
=Triton boltenianus A. Adams, 1855
Images: Cabestana spengleri (Perry, 1811)
From low tide, Whangarei Heads, Northland, NZ. 115mm
From low tide, North Auckland, NZ
Taxonomy
Family:
CYMATIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Cymatiidae (Family)
> Cabestana (Genus)
> spengleri (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cabestana spengleri procerum (Iredale, 1929)
=Cymatium spengleri (Perry, 1811)
=Cymatium spengleri procerum Iredale, 1929
=Septa spengleri Perry, 1811
=Triton (Cabestana) boltenianus A. A. Adams, 1855
=Triton barthelemyi Bernardi, 1857
=Triton boltenianus A. Adams, 1855
Details: Cabestana spengleri (Perry, 1811)
Size/Grows to:
Height 188mm, Width 115mm
Distribution:
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. Low tide to about 15 fathoms. Also from Australia and Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
KACFM
Notes:
Spenglers Trumpet, Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • 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)
  • Morley, M.S. Oct/1995 A Small Point - Features of the Protoconchs of Cymatium parthenopeum parthenopeum (Salis, 1793) and Cabestana spengleri (Perry, 1811): Ranellidae, Poirieria, 17(4)
  • Douglas, W.N. Aug/1985 Periostracum preservation, Poirieria, 14(2) (p.12)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.164)
  • Douglas, W.N. Mar/1968 Cabestana spengleri from Manukau Harbour, Poirieria, 4(3) (p.39)
  • Dec/1964 Cabestana from Deep Water, off Bluff, Foveaux Strait, Poirieria, 2(3) (p.47)

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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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