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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: TROPHONINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Trophoninae (Subfamily)
> Trophon (Genus)
> albolabratus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Fusus (Trophon) Montfort, 1810
=Murex (Muricidea) Swainson, 1840
=Muricidea Swainson, 1840
=Polyplex Perry, 1810
=Stramonitrophon Powell, 1951
=Trophon (Stramonitrophon) Powell, 1951
Synonymised Names:
=Trophon cinguliferus Pfeffer in Martens & Pfeffer, 1886
Images: Trophon albolabratus E.A. Smith, 1875
Collected 23 Mar 1979, Bounty Plateau, NZ (M.318192). ~35mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: TROPHONINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Trophoninae (Subfamily)
> Trophon (Genus)
> albolabratus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Fusus (Trophon) Montfort, 1810
=Murex (Muricidea) Swainson, 1840
=Muricidea Swainson, 1840
=Polyplex Perry, 1810
=Stramonitrophon Powell, 1951
=Trophon (Stramonitrophon) Powell, 1951
Synonymised Names:
=Trophon cinguliferus Pfeffer in Martens & Pfeffer, 1886
Details: Trophon albolabratus E.A. Smith, 1875
Size/Grows to:
Height 38mm, Width 22mm
Distribution:
Bounty Plateau, also Kerguelen and Macquarie Islands below low tide
Geographical Range:
AnE.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.172)

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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