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Taxonomy
Family:
EPITONIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Epitonioidea (Superfamily)
> Epitoniidae (Family)
> Iphitus (Genus)
> neozelanicus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Iphitella Thiele, 1925
=Sculptifer Beu & Climo, 1974
=Stylotrochus Seguenza, 1876 (Invalid: junior homonym of Stylotrochus Haeckel, 1862)
Synonymised Names:
=Sculptifer neozelanica (Dell, 1956)
=Stilifer neozelanica Dell, 1956
=Stylotrochus neozelanicus (Dell, 1956)
Images: Iphitus neozelanicus (Dell, 1956)
Collected 1 Feb 1954, E of Forty Fours, NZ (M.009772). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected in deep sea coral, SW Chatham Rise, NZ
Taxonomy
Family:
EPITONIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Epitonioidea (Superfamily)
> Epitoniidae (Family)
> Iphitus (Genus)
> neozelanicus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Iphitella Thiele, 1925
=Sculptifer Beu & Climo, 1974
=Stylotrochus Seguenza, 1876 (Invalid: junior homonym of Stylotrochus Haeckel, 1862)
Synonymised Names:
=Sculptifer neozelanica (Dell, 1956)
=Stilifer neozelanica Dell, 1956
=Stylotrochus neozelanicus (Dell, 1956)
Details: Iphitus neozelanicus (Dell, 1956)
Size/Grows to:
Height 3.3mm, Width 2.3mm
Distribution:
Kermadecs to Auckland Islands. Trawled from around 250-900 metres
Geographical Range:
KACFMAn
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.145)
  • Beu, A.G. 1978 Habitat and relationships of Iphitella neozelanica (Dell) (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae), New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 12(4) (p.391)
  • Beu, A.G., Climo, F.M. 1974 Mollusca from a recent coral community in Palliser Bay, Cook Strait, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 8(2) (p.324)
  • Dell, R.K. 1956 The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand, Dominion Museum Bulletin, 18 (p.82) Original Description

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

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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