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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Axymene (Genus)
> aucklandicus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Axymene turbator Finlay, 1926
=Euthria aucklandica E.A. Smith, 1902
=Fusus duodecimus Gray, 1843
=Trophon (Kalydon) columnaris Suter, 1908
=Trophon (Kalydon) erectus Suter, 1909
=Trophon columnaris Suter, 1908
=Trophon erectus Suter, 1909
=Xymene aucklandicus (E.A. Smith, 1902)
=Xymene erectus (Suter, 1909)
Images: Axymene aucklandicus (E.A. Smith, 1902)
Collected 19 Feb 1972, between waterfall & hut, North Arm, Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, NZ (M.026153). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Axymene (Genus)
> aucklandicus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Axymene turbator Finlay, 1926
=Euthria aucklandica E.A. Smith, 1902
=Fusus duodecimus Gray, 1843
=Trophon (Kalydon) columnaris Suter, 1908
=Trophon (Kalydon) erectus Suter, 1909
=Trophon columnaris Suter, 1908
=Trophon erectus Suter, 1909
=Xymene aucklandicus (E.A. Smith, 1902)
=Xymene erectus (Suter, 1909)
Details: Axymene aucklandicus (E.A. Smith, 1902)
Size/Grows to:
Height 13mm, Width 6.5mm
Distribution:
Cook Strait to Stewart Island. Snares, Bounty, Campbell and Auckland Islands
Geographical Range:
CFAn
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.175)
  • Ponder, W.F. 1972 A review of the genus Xymene Iredale of New Zealand (Mollusca: Muricidae), Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2(4) (p.494)
  • Smith, E.A. 1902 Report on the collections of natural history made in the Antarctic regions during the voyage of the 'Southern Cross', Mollusca, 7 (p.203) 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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