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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
NEWTONIELLIDAE: NEWTONIELLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Triphoroidea (Superfamily)
> Newtoniellidae (Family)
> Newtoniellinae (Subfamily)
> Cerithiella (Genus)
> nucleoproducta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Mendax Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Euseila nucleoproducta (Dell, 1956)
=Mendax nucleoproducta Dell, 1956
Images: Cerithiella nucleoproducta Dell, 1956
Holotype of Mendax nucleoproducta, collected 01 Feb 1954, E of Forty Fours, NZ (M.009362). 7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
NEWTONIELLIDAE: NEWTONIELLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Triphoroidea (Superfamily)
> Newtoniellidae (Family)
> Newtoniellinae (Subfamily)
> Cerithiella (Genus)
> nucleoproducta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Mendax Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Euseila nucleoproducta (Dell, 1956)
=Mendax nucleoproducta Dell, 1956
Details: Cerithiella nucleoproducta Dell, 1956
Size/Grows to:
Height 7mm, Width 1.9mm
Distribution:
South-eastern South Island, Chatham Rise and Antipodes Islands
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.134)
  • Marshall, B.A. Mar/1978 Cerithiopsidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of New Zealand and a provisional classification of the family, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 5(1) (p.69)
  • Dell, R.K. 1956 The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand, Dominion Museum Bulletin, 18 (p.68) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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