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Taxonomy
Family:
PTYCHATRACTIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Ptychatractidae (Family)
> Metzgeria (Genus)
> problematica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Volutomitra H. & A. Adams, 1853
Synonymised Names:
=Vexillum (Latiromitra) problematicum Ponder, 1968
Images: Metzgeria problematica (Ponder, 1968)
Trawled in deep water on the Bounty Plateau, NZ. 32mm
Holotype of Vexillum problematicum Ponder, collected 1967, E of Taiaroa Heads, NZ (M.021553). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
PTYCHATRACTIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Ptychatractidae (Family)
> Metzgeria (Genus)
> problematica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Volutomitra H. & A. Adams, 1853
Synonymised Names:
=Vexillum (Latiromitra) problematicum Ponder, 1968
Details: Metzgeria problematica (Ponder, 1968)
Size/Grows to:
Height 32mm, Width 12mm
Distribution:
Off Otago, trawled around 120 metres
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Bouchet, P., Kantor, Y.I. 2000 The anatomy and systematics of Latiromitra, a genus of tropical deep-water Ptychatractinae (Gastropoda: Turbinellidae), The Veliger, 43 (p.22)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.214)
  • Hole, D.M. Oct/1978 Notes from Mr. Richard Willan's talk on Mitra and Volutomitra, Poirieria, 9(6) (p.112)
  • Ponder, W.F. 1968 Nomenclatural notes on some New Zealand rachiglossan gastropods with descriptions of five new species, Records of the Dominion Museum, 6(4) (p.45) 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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