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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)
> Lamellitrophon (Genus)
> traversi (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Axymene traversi (Hutton, 1873)
=Fusus corticatus Hutton, 1873
=Fusus traversi Hutton, 1873
=Trophon waipipicola Webster, 1906
=Xymene quirindus Iredale, 1915
=Xymene traversi (Hutton, 1873)
Images: Lamellitrophon traversi (Hutton, 1873)
Off Aldermen Islands, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 14mm
Collected April 1984, Mount Maunganui, under main wharf, NZ (M.305287). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype of Trophon waipipicola Webster, 1906, collected at Waipipi, Manukau Harbour, Auckland, NZ (MA70779). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Below low tide in rock pool, Henderson Bay, Far North, NZ. 10-12mm
In coralline weed at low tide, Opoutama, Mahia, NZ
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Lamellitrophon (Genus)
> traversi (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Axymene traversi (Hutton, 1873)
=Fusus corticatus Hutton, 1873
=Fusus traversi Hutton, 1873
=Trophon waipipicola Webster, 1906
=Xymene quirindus Iredale, 1915
=Xymene traversi (Hutton, 1873)
Details: Lamellitrophon traversi (Hutton, 1873)
Size/Grows to:
Height 22mm, Width 10mm
Distribution:
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, littoral to shallow subtidal. More common in north
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Houart, R. 2022 New species and genera of Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand, Novapex, 23(1) (p.9)
  • Mead, K., Carson, K., Raven, J.L., Couper, J., Elliot, M., Elliot, C., Bracegirdle, S. Nov/2021 Notes on NZ Collected Species, Cookia, 33 (p.20)
  • 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.491)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1873 Catalogue of the Marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species, Dominion Museum (NZ) (p.9) 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