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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
Geographical Range:
ACF
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)

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