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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)
> Xymene (Genus)
> plebeius (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Fusus inferus Hutton, 1878
=Fusus plebeius Hutton, 1873
=Xymene inferus (Hutton, 1878)
Images: Xymene plebeius (Hutton, 1873)
Low tide, Te Atatu Peninsula, Auckland, NZ. 14mm
Lectotype, collected no other data, NZ (M.000080). ~20mm. © 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)
> Xymene (Genus)
> plebeius (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Fusus inferus Hutton, 1878
=Fusus plebeius Hutton, 1873
=Xymene inferus (Hutton, 1878)
Details: Xymene plebeius (Hutton, 1873)
Size/Grows to:
Height 22mm, Width 11mm
Distribution:
North, South and Stewart Island
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, In harbours and estuaries
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.173)
  • 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.475)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1873 Catalogue of the Marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species, Dominion Museum (NZ) Original Description

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

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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