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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: TYPHINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Typhinae (Subfamily)
> Monstrotyphis (Genus)
> pauperis (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Typhis pauperis Mestayer, 1916
Images: Monstrotyphis pauperis (Mestayer, 1916)
Holotype, collected off Poor Knights Islands, NZ (M.001749). 7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: TYPHINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Typhinae (Subfamily)
> Monstrotyphis (Genus)
> pauperis (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Typhis pauperis Mestayer, 1916
Details: Monstrotyphis pauperis (Mestayer, 1916)
Size/Grows to:
Height 10mm, Width 6mm
Distribution:
Northland to Bay of Plenty
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Houart, R. 2012 The Recent Typhinae (Gastropoda: Muricidae) of New Zealand, Molluscan Research, 32(3) (p.139)
  • Houart, R. 2002 Description of a new Typhine (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from New Caledonia with comments on some generic classifications within the subfamily, Venus, 61 (p.149)
  • D'Atillio, A., Hertz, C.M. 1988 An Illustrated catalogue of the family Typhidae Cossmann, 1903 (Gastropoda: Muricacea), The Festivus (p.29)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.182)
  • Gardner, N.W. Jun/1965 Typhis pauperis, Poirieria, 2(5) (p.83)
  • Mestayer, M. 1916 Preliminary list of Mollusca from dredgings taken off the northern coasts of New Zealand., Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 48 (p.127) Original Description

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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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