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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
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)

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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