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Taxonomy
Family:
CYMATIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Cymatiidae (Family)
> Linatella (Genus)
> caudata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Buccinum caudatum Gmelin, 1791
=Cymatium cutaceum (Lamarck, 1816)
=Fusus cutaceus Lamarck, 1816
=Linatella cingulatum (Gmelin, 1791)
Images: Linatella caudata (Gmelin, 1791)
Washed up at Te Arai Point, Northland, NZ
Taxonomy
Family:
CYMATIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Cymatiidae (Family)
> Linatella (Genus)
> caudata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Buccinum caudatum Gmelin, 1791
=Cymatium cutaceum (Lamarck, 1816)
=Fusus cutaceus Lamarck, 1816
=Linatella cingulatum (Gmelin, 1791)
Details: Linatella caudata (Gmelin, 1791)
Size/Grows to:
Height 50mm (NZ), Height Up to 100mm overseas
Distribution:
Northland. Occasionally empty shells washed up on east coast beaches
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Beu, A.G. 1998 Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda): A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna and revisions of related taxa, Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 178 (p.83)
  • Beu, A.G., Maxwell, P.A. 1990 Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey, 58 (p.355)
  • Grange, R.C. Nov/1983 A new record for New Zealand. Linatella cutacea (Link, 1816), Poirieria, 13(2) (p.4)
  • Beu, A.G. 1976 New records of Cymatiidae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from Kapitean to Castlecliffian (Late Miocene to Early Pleistocene) rocks of East Cape District, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 19(2) (p.308)

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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