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Taxonomy
Family:
COMINELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Cominellidae (Family)
> Cominella (Genus)
> nassoides (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Buccinum nassoides Reeve, 1846
=Buccinum veneris Filhol, 1880
=Cominella (Eucominia) nassoides (Reeve, 1846)
=Cominella (Eucominia) nassoides foveauxana Powell, 1946
=Cominella (Eucominia) nassoides nassoides (Reeve, 1846)
=Cominella nassoides nassoides (Reeve, 1846)
=Eucominia filholi Finlay, 1930
=Eucominia nassoides (Reeve, 1846)
Images: Cominella nassoides (Reeve, 1846)
Stewart Island, NZ. 32mm
Holotype of Cominella (Eucominia) nassoides foveauxana Powell, collected Foveaux Strait, NZ. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
COMINELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Cominellidae (Family)
> Cominella (Genus)
> nassoides (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Buccinum nassoides Reeve, 1846
=Buccinum veneris Filhol, 1880
=Cominella (Eucominia) nassoides (Reeve, 1846)
=Cominella (Eucominia) nassoides foveauxana Powell, 1946
=Cominella (Eucominia) nassoides nassoides (Reeve, 1846)
=Cominella nassoides nassoides (Reeve, 1846)
=Eucominia filholi Finlay, 1930
=Eucominia nassoides (Reeve, 1846)
Details: Cominella nassoides (Reeve, 1846)
Size/Grows to:
Height 50mm, Width 25mm
Distribution:
Stewart Island and Foveaux Strait
Geographical Range:
F
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Gibbs, D.W., Scott, I. Apr/1989 The Cominella nassoides Complex, Poirieria, 15(6) (p.2)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.194)

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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