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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)
> Ponderia (Genus)
> zealandica (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Prototyphis (Ponderia) zealandicus (Hutton, 1873)
=Prototyphis zealandicus (Hutton, 1873)
=Pterynotus (Pterochelus) zealandicus (Hutton, 1873)
=Typhis zealandica Hutton, 1873
Images: Ponderia zealandica Hutton, 1873
Castlecliff, Wanganui (fossil). 20mm
Collected 08 Aug 1963, 14-16 km due N of Cape Farewell. (M.017977). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected 25 Jan 1979, off East Cape, Ranfurly Bank, NZ (M.070409). 18mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: TRIPTEROTYPHINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Tripterotyphinae (Subfamily)
> Ponderia (Genus)
> zealandica (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Prototyphis (Ponderia) zealandicus (Hutton, 1873)
=Prototyphis zealandicus (Hutton, 1873)
=Pterynotus (Pterochelus) zealandicus (Hutton, 1873)
=Typhis zealandica Hutton, 1873
Details: Ponderia zealandica Hutton, 1873
Size/Grows to:
Height 30mm, Width 21mm
Distribution:
Cook Strait and off Cape Campbell, Bay of Plenty to East Cape. Castlecliff, Wanganui fossil
Geographical Range:
CR.Fo.
Notes:
Marine, Recent, Fossil, 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)
  • D'Atillio, A., Hertz, C.M. 1988 An Illustrated catalogue of the family Typhidae Cossmann, 1903 (Gastropoda: Muricacea), The Festivus (p.37)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.172)
  • Fleming, C.A. 1962 The Genus Pterynotus Swainson (Gastropoda, Family Muricidae) in New Zealand and Norfolk Island, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2(14) (p.115)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1873 Catalogue of the Tertiary Mollusca and Echinodermata of New Zealand, in the collection of the Colonial Museum, Didsbury, Government Printer, Wellington Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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
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