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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: MURICINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Muricinae (Subfamily)
> Phyllocoma (Genus)
> speciosa virginalis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Galfridus Iredale, 1924
=Phyllocoma (Galfridus) Iredale, 1924
=Phyllocoma (Phyllocoma) Tapparone Canefri, 1881
Synonymised Names:
=Galfridus speciosus virginalis (Suter, 1913)
=Trophon virginalis Suter, 1913
Images: Phyllocoma speciosa virginalis (Suter, 1913)
Dredged in Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ. 10mm. © rights reserved
Dredged Feb 1986, South East Bay, Three Kings Islands, NZ (M.305348). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: MURICINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Muricinae (Subfamily)
> Phyllocoma (Genus)
> speciosa virginalis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Galfridus Iredale, 1924
=Phyllocoma (Galfridus) Iredale, 1924
=Phyllocoma (Phyllocoma) Tapparone Canefri, 1881
Synonymised Names:
=Galfridus speciosus virginalis (Suter, 1913)
=Trophon virginalis Suter, 1913
Details: Phyllocoma speciosa virginalis (Suter, 1913)
Size/Grows to:
Height 16mm, Width 7mm
Distribution:
Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Bland Bay, from 6-508m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Dredged or found in shell-sand
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Wotton, M.A. Nov/2011 Some rare and uncommon species from shell sand, Cookia, 23 (p.12)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.178)
  • Suter, H. 1913 Descriptions of two new marine shells from New Zealand, Records of the Canterbury Museum, 2 (p.58) 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