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Taxonomy
Family:
COLUMBARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Columbariidae (Family)
> Coluzea (Genus)
> altocanalis (Species)
Images: Coluzea altocanalis (Dell, 1956)
Trawled in deep water, Hawkes Bay, NZ. 91mm
Holotype, collected 24 January 1954, Chatham Rise, NZ (M.008219). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
COLUMBARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Columbariidae (Family)
> Coluzea (Genus)
> altocanalis (Species)
Details: Coluzea altocanalis (Dell, 1956)
Size/Grows to:
Height 127mm
Distribution:
Upper continental slope off the eastern coast of North and South Island, and Chatham Rise, 400-1000 metres
Geographical Range:
CFM
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Sculpture consists of heavy smooth spiral keels, the strongest one peripheral. Contiguous sutural minor keels combine to create a deeply canaliculate suture
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Harasewych, M.G. 2011 The Living Columbariinae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Turbinellidae) of New Zealand, Zootaxa, 2744 (p.18)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.169)
  • Darragh, T.A. 1968 A revision of the family Columbariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 83 (p.104)
  • Dell, R.K. 1956 Some new off-shore Mollusca from New Zealand., Records of the Dominion Museum, 3(1) (p.50) 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
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