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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)
> patens (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Purpura patens Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848
Images: Paratrophon patens (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1854)
From Farewell Spit, Tasman, NZ. 21mm. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Paratrophon (Genus)
> patens (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Purpura patens Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848
Details: Paratrophon patens (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1854)
Size/Grows to:
Height 29mm, Width 17mm
Distribution:
Western North Island and South Island, from 0m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal on exposed rocky shores
Description:
Lamellose within the grooves

Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.178)

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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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