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Taxonomy
Family:
COMINELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Cominellidae (Family)
> Cominella (Genus)
> tolagaensis (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cominella (Cominella) excoriata tolagaensis Ponder, 1968
=Cominella (Cominula) tolagaensis Ponder, 1968 accepted, alternate representation
=Cominella excoriata tolagaensis Ponder, 1968
Images: Cominella tolagaensis Ponder, 1968
Off Tolaga Bay, East Cape. 29mm
Holotype, collected 400 m offshore, off Tolaga Bay wharf, S of East Cape, NZ (M.021552). ~32mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
COMINELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Cominellidae (Family)
> Cominella (Genus)
> tolagaensis (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cominella (Cominella) excoriata tolagaensis Ponder, 1968
=Cominella (Cominula) tolagaensis Ponder, 1968 accepted, alternate representation
=Cominella excoriata tolagaensis Ponder, 1968
Details: Cominella tolagaensis Ponder, 1968
Size/Grows to:
Height 31mm, Width 20mm
Distribution:
North Island east coast. East Cape to Mahia, below low tide
Geographical Range:
C
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Beu, A.G., Maxwell, P.A. 1990 Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey, 58 (p.324)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.192)
  • 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.29) 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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