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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 exsculptus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Paratrophon exsculptus Powell, 1933
Images: Paratrophon cheesemani exsculptus Powell, 1933
Holotype, collected White Cliffs, NE of Pukearue, North Taranaki, NZ (MA70587). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Waikato, West Coast, NZ. 14mm
Waitara, Taranaki, NZ. 21mm
Found among the black mussel Xenostrobus neozelanicus, Taranaki, NZ. 18mm
At low/mid tide among Black Mussels, Waitara, Taranaki, NZ. 15-18mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Paratrophon (Genus)
> cheesemani exsculptus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Paratrophon exsculptus Powell, 1933
Details: Paratrophon cheesemani exsculptus Powell, 1933
Size/Grows to:
Height 23mm, Width 13mm
Distribution:
West Coast North and South Islands from Port Waikato to Jackson Bay, south of Haast
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.178)
  • Sep/1966 Notes of Interest: Paratrophon exsculphus, Poirieria, 3(4-5) (p.56)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1933 On five new species of recent New Zealand Mollusca, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 20(5) (p.197) 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