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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
Geographical Range:
AC
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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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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