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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)
> mawsoni (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Fusus (Trophon) Montfort, 1810
=Murex (Muricidea) Swainson, 1840
=Muricidea Swainson, 1840
=Polyplex Perry, 1810
=Stramonitrophon Powell, 1951
=Trophon (Stramonitrophon) Powell, 1951
Images: Trophon mawsoni Powell, 1957
Collected 10 Feb 1965, E of Macquarie Island, Australia (USNM 896644). ~28mm. © Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Collected 10 Feb 1965, E of Macquarie Island, Australia (USNM 896644). ~28mm. © Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: TROPHONINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Trophoninae (Subfamily)
> Trophon (Genus)
> mawsoni (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Fusus (Trophon) Montfort, 1810
=Murex (Muricidea) Swainson, 1840
=Muricidea Swainson, 1840
=Polyplex Perry, 1810
=Stramonitrophon Powell, 1951
=Trophon (Stramonitrophon) Powell, 1951
Details: Trophon mawsoni Powell, 1957
Size/Grows to:
Height 46mm, Width 28mm
Distribution:
Off Macquarie Island, 29-549 metres
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.173)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1957 Mollusca of Kerguelen and Macquarie Islands, British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1929-1931, 6 (p.142) Original Description

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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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