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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
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:
Northland to Bay of Plenty
Geographical Range:
A
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)

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