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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Paratrophon (Genus)
> cheesemani (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Paratrophon cheesemani cheesemani (Hutton, 1882) accepted, alternate representation
=Polytropa cheesemani Hutton, 1882
Images: Paratrophon cheesemani (Hutton, 1882)
The Bluff, Ninety Mile Beach, Far North, NZ. 14mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Paratrophon (Genus)
> cheesemani (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Paratrophon cheesemani cheesemani (Hutton, 1882) accepted, alternate representation
=Polytropa cheesemani Hutton, 1882
Details: Paratrophon cheesemani (Hutton, 1882)
Size/Grows to:
Height 19mm, Width 11mm
Distribution:
North Island west coast, from Ninety Mile Beach to Kawhia
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 1995 Molluscan and brachiopod taxa introduced by F.W. Hutton in The New Zealand Journal of Science, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 25 (p.497)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.178)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1882 Additions to the molluscan fauna of New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Science, 1(2) (p.69) 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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