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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)
> Poirieria (Genus)
> kopua (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Poirieria (Poirieria) Jousseaume, 1880
Synonymised Names:
=Poirieria (Poirieria) kopua Dell, 1956
Images: Poirieria kopua Dell, 1956
Holotype, collected 11 Feb 1954, Chatham Rise, NZ (M.009777). 18mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Papanui Canyon, Otago, NZ. 15mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Poirieria (Genus)
> kopua (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Poirieria (Poirieria) Jousseaume, 1880
Synonymised Names:
=Poirieria (Poirieria) kopua Dell, 1956
Details: Poirieria kopua Dell, 1956
Size/Grows to:
Height 21mm, Width 15mm
Distribution:
Off Bay of Plenty southwards and Chatham Rise. Trawled around 500-1000 metres
Geographical Range:
CFME.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic
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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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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