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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: TRIPTEROTYPHINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Tripterotyphinae (Subfamily)
> Prototyphis (Genus)
> eos paupereques (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Pterotyphis (Prototyphis) Ponder, 1972
Synonymised Names:
=Prototyphis paupereques (Powell, 1974)
=Pterochelus paupereques Powell, 1974
Images: Prototyphis eos paupereques (Powell, 1974)
Holotype, collected in 1969, 9-18 metres, Poor Knights Islands, Northland, NZ (MA71343). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: TRIPTEROTYPHINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Tripterotyphinae (Subfamily)
> Prototyphis (Genus)
> eos paupereques (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Pterotyphis (Prototyphis) Ponder, 1972
Synonymised Names:
=Prototyphis paupereques (Powell, 1974)
=Pterochelus paupereques Powell, 1974
Details: Prototyphis eos paupereques (Powell, 1974)
Size/Grows to:
Height 30mm, Width 19mm
Distribution:
Off northland east coast
Geographical Range:
A
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Beu, A.G., Maxwell, P.A. 1990 Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey, 58 (p.358)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.171)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1974 New Zealand Molluscan Systematics with Descriptions of New Species: Part 8, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 11 (p.199) Original Description

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