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Taxonomy
Family:
CERITHIOPSIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Triphoroidea (Superfamily)
> Cerithiopsidae (Family)
> Sundaya (Genus)
> tuberculata (Species)
Images: Sundaya tuberculata Powell, 1927
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Taxonomy
Family:
CERITHIOPSIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Triphoroidea (Superfamily)
> Cerithiopsidae (Family)
> Sundaya (Genus)
> tuberculata (Species)
Details: Sundaya tuberculata Powell, 1927
Size/Grows to:
Height 2.2mm, Width 0.9mm
Distribution:
Off Three Kings Islands, north-east coast of North Island to East Cape, southern Fiordland, Stewart Island, and Pukaki Rise, in shell sand to 805 metres
Notes:
Marine, Native - 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.221)
  • 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.93)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1927 Deep-water Mollusca from south-west Otago, with descriptions of 2 new genera and 22 new species., Records of the Canterbury Museum, 3 (p.117) Original Description

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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