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Taxonomy
Family:
TUDICLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Tudiclidae (Family)
> Buccinulum (Genus)
> vittatum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Buccinulum (Chathamina) Finlay, 1928
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) Iredale, 1918
=Buccinulum (Evarnula) Finlay, 1926
=Euthrena Iredale, 1918
=Evarne H. & A. Adams, 1853
=Evarnula Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) heteromorphum Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) heteromorphum bucknilli Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) heteromorphum heteromorphum Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) kaikouraense Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) maketuense Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) motutaraense Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) strebeli Suter, 1908
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) strebeli exsculptum Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) strebeli mestayerae Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum heteromorphum Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum heteromorphum bucknilli Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum heteromorphum heteromorphum Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum kaikouraense Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum maketuense Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum motutaraense Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum strebeli exsculptum Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum strebeli mestayerae Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum vittatum vittatum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) accepted, alternate representation
=Buccinum trileatum Reeve, 1846
=Euthria littorinoides costulata Suter, 1913
=Euthria martensiana Hutton, 1878
=Euthria strebeli Suter, 1908
=Fusus vittatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
=Pisania flavescens Hutton, 1884
Images: Buccinulum vittatum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
20 metres scuba, Auckland East Coast. 29mm
Off Auckland East Coast, NZ. 26mm
Under a rock at low tide, Houhora Heads, Far North, NZ. 20mm
Intertidal, from the Auckland East Coast, NZ. 12mm
Holotype of Buccinulum (Euthrena) heteromorphum Powell, collected Takapuna Beach, Auckland, NZ (MA72019). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype of Buccinulum (Euthrena) motutaraense Powell, collected Jan 1927, Motutara, Auckland, NZ (MA72024). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype of Buccinulum (Euthrena) maketuense Powell, collected Jan 1922, Maketu, SE of Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, NZ (MA72022). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype of Buccinulum (Euthrena) strebeli mestayerae Powell, collected Jan 1928, Island Bay, Wellington, NZ (MA72031). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype of Buccinulum (Euthrena) heteromorphum bucknilli Powell, collected Jan 1927, Moturiki Island, Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty, NZ (MA72020). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
TUDICLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Tudiclidae (Family)
> Buccinulum (Genus)
> vittatum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Buccinulum (Chathamina) Finlay, 1928
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) Iredale, 1918
=Buccinulum (Evarnula) Finlay, 1926
=Euthrena Iredale, 1918
=Evarne H. & A. Adams, 1853
=Evarnula Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) heteromorphum Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) heteromorphum bucknilli Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) heteromorphum heteromorphum Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) kaikouraense Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) maketuense Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) motutaraense Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) strebeli Suter, 1908
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) strebeli exsculptum Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum (Euthrena) strebeli mestayerae Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum heteromorphum Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum heteromorphum bucknilli Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum heteromorphum heteromorphum Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum kaikouraense Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum maketuense Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum motutaraense Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum strebeli exsculptum Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum strebeli mestayerae Powell, 1929
=Buccinulum vittatum vittatum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) accepted, alternate representation
=Buccinum trileatum Reeve, 1846
=Euthria littorinoides costulata Suter, 1913
=Euthria martensiana Hutton, 1878
=Euthria strebeli Suter, 1908
=Fusus vittatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
=Pisania flavescens Hutton, 1884
Details: Buccinulum vittatum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Size/Grows to:
Height 26mm, Width 12mm
Distribution:
Upper North Island. Northland to New Plymouth and East Cape
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Mead, K., Carson, K., Raven, J.L., Couper, J., Elliot, M., Elliot, C., Bracegirdle, S. Nov/2021 Notes on NZ Collected Species, Cookia, 33 (p.19)
  • Gemmell, M.R., Trewick, S.A., Crampton, J.S., Vaux, F., Hills, S.F.K., Daly, E.E., Marshall, B.A., Beu, A.G., Morgan-Richards, M. 2018 Genetic structure and shell shape variation within a rocky shore whelk suggest both diverging and constraining selection with gene flow, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 20 (p.1)
  • Marshall, B.A. 1998 Marine Mollusca from Wellington Harbour and Approaches, East Harbour Environmental Association Inc (p.146)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.199)
  • Ponder, W.F. 1971 A review of the New Zealand recent and fossil species of Buccinulum Deshayes (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Buccinidae), Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 1(3) (p.248)

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Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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