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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
Geographical Range:
ACFM
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)

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