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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: ERGALATAXINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Ergalataxinae (Subfamily)
> Pascula (Genus)
> palmeri (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Morula Schumacher, 1817
Synonymised Names:
=Morula (Oppomorus) palmeri Powell, 1967
=Morula palmeri Powell, 1967
Images: Pascula palmeri (Powell, 1967)
Found diving off Northland, NZ. 22mm. © rights reserved
Found diving off Northland, NZ. 20mm. © rights reserved
Holotype, collected off Tawhiti Rahi Island, Poor Knights Islands, NZ (MA71303). 20mm. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: ERGALATAXINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Ergalataxinae (Subfamily)
> Pascula (Genus)
> palmeri (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Morula Schumacher, 1817
Synonymised Names:
=Morula (Oppomorus) palmeri Powell, 1967
=Morula palmeri Powell, 1967
Details: Pascula palmeri (Powell, 1967)
Size/Grows to:
Height 26mm, Width 14mm
Distribution:
Norfolk Island and northern New Zealand. West Norfolk Ridge, Kermadec Islands, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 0-195m
Type Data:
  • NW end Tawhiti Rahi Island, Poor Knights Islands, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.225)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.181)
  • Latham, P. Oct/1974 Notes of Interest: Morula palmeri, Poirieria, 7(5) (p.100)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1967 New Zealand Molluscan Systematics with Descriptions of New Species: Part 6, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 6(3) (p.193) Original Description

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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