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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
Geographical Range:
An
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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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