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Taxonomy
Family:
COMINELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Cominellidae (Family)
> Cominella (Genus)
> maculosa (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Buccinum maculosum Martyn, 1784
=Buccinum testudineum Bruguière, 1789
=Cominella (Cominella) maculosa (Martyn, 1784) accepted, alternate representation
=Cominella testudinea (Bruguière, 1789)
=Harpa antiqua G.B. Sowerby I, 1825
Images: Cominella maculosa (Martyn, 1784)
Shallow water, Tutukaka Harbour, Northland, NZ. 45mm
Intertidal, north Auckland, NZ
Intertidal, north Auckland, NZ
Taxonomy
Family:
COMINELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Cominellidae (Family)
> Cominella (Genus)
> maculosa (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Buccinum maculosum Martyn, 1784
=Buccinum testudineum Bruguière, 1789
=Cominella (Cominella) maculosa (Martyn, 1784) accepted, alternate representation
=Cominella testudinea (Bruguière, 1789)
=Harpa antiqua G.B. Sowerby I, 1825
Details: Cominella maculosa (Martyn, 1784)
Size/Grows to:
Height 58mm, Width 28mm
Distribution:
North Island, northern part of South Island and Chatham Islands
Notes:
Spotted Whelk, Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • 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)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.192)

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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