Quick Search
Taxonomy
Family:
COLUMBARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Columbariidae (Family)
> Coluzea (Genus)
> mariae (Species)
Images: Coluzea mariae (Powell, 1952)
Trawled 400-450 metres, Chatham Rise, NZ. 91mm
Trawled 450 metres, Chatham Rise, NZ. 69mm
Trawled 150-200 metres, Mernoo Bank, W Chatham Rise, NZ
Taxonomy
Family:
COLUMBARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Columbariidae (Family)
> Coluzea (Genus)
> mariae (Species)
Details: Coluzea mariae (Powell, 1952)
Size/Grows to:
Height 106mm, Width 25mm
Distribution:
From Cape Campbell southward along eastern coast of South Island, western Campbell Plateau (off Auckland and Campbell Islands), and along western Chatham Rise
Geographical Range:
CFMAnE.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic, Broader and more squat spire than spiralis. Body whorl more rounded, the peripheral keel less prominent, and the axial folds more numerous, forming 23-24 blunt tubercules per whorl
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications

*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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
Recently Viewed