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Taxonomy
Family:
BELOMITRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Belomitridae (Family)
> Belomitra (Genus)
> aoteana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Bathyclionella Kobelt, 1905
=Cryptomitra Dall, 1924
=Dellina Beu, 1970
=Morrisonella Bartsch, 1945
=Pleurobela Monterosato [in Locard], 1897
Synonymised Names:
=Antizafra aoteana Dell, 1956
=Belomitra climacella of authors, not Dall
=Dellina aoteana (Dell, 1956)
=Waipaoa aoteana (Dell, 1956)
=Waipaoa munida Ponder, 1968
Images: Belomitra aoteana (Dell, 1956)
Type of Waipaoa munida Ponder, 1968, collected 22 May 1967, ESE of Taiaroa Heads, NZ (M.021554). 13mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
BELOMITRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Belomitridae (Family)
> Belomitra (Genus)
> aoteana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Bathyclionella Kobelt, 1905
=Cryptomitra Dall, 1924
=Dellina Beu, 1970
=Morrisonella Bartsch, 1945
=Pleurobela Monterosato [in Locard], 1897
Synonymised Names:
=Antizafra aoteana Dell, 1956
=Belomitra climacella of authors, not Dall
=Dellina aoteana (Dell, 1956)
=Waipaoa aoteana (Dell, 1956)
=Waipaoa munida Ponder, 1968
Details: Belomitra aoteana (Dell, 1956)
Size/Grows to:
Height 13mm, Width 5mm
Distribution:
Atlantic, Pacific, SE NZ, Chatham Islands, 300-700m
Geographical Range:
FM
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Kantor, Y.I., Puillandre, N., Rivasseau, A. 2012 Neither a buccinid nor a turrid: A new family of deep-sea snails for Belomitra P. Fischer, 1883 (Mollusca, Neogastropda), with a review of Recent Indo-Pacific species, Zootaxa, 3496 (p.14)
  • Bouchet, P., Warén, A. 1985 Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda, excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda), Bollettino Malacologico, 1 (p.223)
  • Bouchet, P., Warén, A. 1985 Mollusca Gastropoda: Taxonomical notes on tropical deep water Buccinidae with descriptions of new taxa, Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 133 (p.474)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.226)
  • Dell, R.K. 1956 The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand, Dominion Museum Bulletin, 18 (p.111) 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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