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Taxonomy
Family:
CYMATIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Cymatiidae (Family)
> Cymatona (Genus)
> kampyla (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cymatium jobbernsi L.C. King, 1933
=Cymatona tomlini Powell, 1955
=Lampusia nodocostata Tate & May, 1901
=Nassaria kampyla R. B. Watson, 1883
=Sassia jobbernsi (L.C. King, 1933)
=Sassia kampyla (R.B. Watson, 1883)
=Sassia kampyla kampyla (R.B. Watson, 1883)
Images: Cymatona kampyla (R.B. Watson, 1883)
Trawled off Bounty Islands, NZ. 53mm
Taxonomy
Family:
CYMATIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Cymatiidae (Family)
> Cymatona (Genus)
> kampyla (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cymatium jobbernsi L.C. King, 1933
=Cymatona tomlini Powell, 1955
=Lampusia nodocostata Tate & May, 1901
=Nassaria kampyla R. B. Watson, 1883
=Sassia jobbernsi (L.C. King, 1933)
=Sassia kampyla (R.B. Watson, 1883)
=Sassia kampyla kampyla (R.B. Watson, 1883)
Details: Cymatona kampyla (R.B. Watson, 1883)
Size/Grows to:
Height 55mm, Width 27mm
Distribution:
Off Cook Strait and East Coast of South Island to Foveaux Strait and Chatham Rise, New Zealand. Also off Eastern Australia
Geographical Range:
ACFMAn
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.166)
  • Cernohorsky, W.O. 1977 The taxonomy of some molluscan species reported from New Zealand, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 14 (p.95)

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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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