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Taxonomy
Family:
EULIMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Vanikoioidea (Superfamily)
> Eulimidae (Family)
> Awanuia (Genus)
> porcellana (Species)
Images: Awanuia porcellana Ponder, 1967
Collected in shell sand, 50 feet, South Harbour, Poor Knights Islands, Northland, NZ. 2.8mm. © rights reserved
Collected in shell sand, 50 feet, South Harbour, Poor Knights Islands, Northland, NZ. 2.8mm. © rights reserved
Holotype, collected Goat Island Bay, Leigh, Auckland, NZ (MA72965). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
EULIMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Vanikoioidea (Superfamily)
> Eulimidae (Family)
> Awanuia (Genus)
> porcellana (Species)
Details: Awanuia porcellana Ponder, 1967
Size/Grows to:
Height 3mm, Width 1mm
Distribution:
North-eastern North Island, from 0m
Type Data:
  • Goat Island Bay Beach, Leigh, NE of Warkworth, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Morley, M.S., Hayward, B.W., Raven, J.L., Foreman, G.A., Grenfell, H.R. 2006 Intertidal and shallow subtidal biota of Mahia Peninsula, Hawkes Bay, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 43 (p.31)
  • Ponder, W.F. 1985 A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea), Records of the Australian Museum (p.105)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.98)
  • Ponder, W.F. 1967 The classification of the Rissoidae and Orbitestellidae with descriptions of some new taxa, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 9(17) (p.201) Original Description

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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