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Taxonomy
Family:
CYMATIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Cymatiidae (Family)
> Monoplex (Genus)
> exaratus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Cabestanimorpha Iredale, 1936
=Cymatium (Monoplex) Perry, 1810
=Septa (Monoplex) Perry, 1810
Synonymised Names:
=Cabestanimorpha euclia Cotton, 1945
=Cymatium (Monoplex) exaratum (Reeve, 1844)
=Cymatium exaratum (Reeve, 1844)
=Cymatium zimara Iredale, 1929
=Lotorium (Cymatium) kiiense G.B. Sowerby III, 1915
=Monoplex cornutus Perry, 1811
=Triton exaratus Reeve, 1844
=Triton obscurus A. Adams, 1855
=Tritonium granulatum Dunker, 1871
Images: Monoplex exaratus (Reeve, 1844)
Off White Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 37mm
From off Northland, NZ
Washed up in rock pool, near Rarawa, Far North, NZ. 23mm
Taxonomy
Family:
CYMATIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Cymatiidae (Family)
> Monoplex (Genus)
> exaratus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Cabestanimorpha Iredale, 1936
=Cymatium (Monoplex) Perry, 1810
=Septa (Monoplex) Perry, 1810
Synonymised Names:
=Cabestanimorpha euclia Cotton, 1945
=Cymatium (Monoplex) exaratum (Reeve, 1844)
=Cymatium exaratum (Reeve, 1844)
=Cymatium zimara Iredale, 1929
=Lotorium (Cymatium) kiiense G.B. Sowerby III, 1915
=Monoplex cornutus Perry, 1811
=Triton exaratus Reeve, 1844
=Triton obscurus A. Adams, 1855
=Tritonium granulatum Dunker, 1871
Details: Monoplex exaratus (Reeve, 1844)
Size/Grows to:
Height 60mm, Width 36mm
Distribution:
Western Pacific, Hawaii, Red Sea, South Africa, and West Atlantic. Raoul Island and Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Mahia Peninsula
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Morley, M.S., Hayward, B.W., Raven, J.L., Foreman, G.A., Grenfell, H.R. 2006 Intertidal and shallow subtidal biota of Mahia Peninsula, Hawkes Bay, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 43 (p.32)
  • 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.165)

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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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