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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:
Eastern and south-eastern Australia, and New Zealand. Raoul, Three Kings, North, South and Chatham Islands
Notes:
Spenglers Trumpet, Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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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Recent
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Subfossil
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