Quick Search
To Advanced Search
Taxonomy
Family:
COMINELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Cominellidae (Family)
> Cominella (Genus)
> glandiformis (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Buccinum glandiforme Reeve, 1847
=Buccinum luridum Philippi, 1849
=Cominella (Cominista) glandiformis (Reeve, 1847) accepted, alternate representation
=Cominella (Josepha) glandiformis (Reeve, 1847)
Images: Cominella glandiformis (Reeve, 1847)
Waipu, Northland, NZ. 25mm
(orange form) - On oysters, Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ. 22mm
Common on mud and sandy flats in sheltered waters
A group devouring a dead bivalve. Parengarenga Harbour, Far North, NZ. 20-25 mm
Taxonomy
Family:
COMINELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Cominellidae (Family)
> Cominella (Genus)
> glandiformis (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Buccinum glandiforme Reeve, 1847
=Buccinum luridum Philippi, 1849
=Cominella (Cominista) glandiformis (Reeve, 1847) accepted, alternate representation
=Cominella (Josepha) glandiformis (Reeve, 1847)
Details: Cominella glandiformis (Reeve, 1847)
Size/Grows to:
Height 43mm, Width 23mm
Distribution:
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
Geographical Range:
ACFM
Notes:
Mud Whelk, Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Morley, M.S. Oct/2013 In a Whorl with Cominella glandiformis, Poirieria, 37 (p.4)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.193)
  • Bimler, A. 1976 Effects of overcrowding on floating behaviour in the mud whelk Cominella glandiformis (Mollusca: Gastropoda), New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 10(4) (p.715)

*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
Recently Viewed