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Taxonomy
Family:
COMINELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Cominellidae (Family)
> Cominella (Genus)
> quoyana (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Buccinum luridum Hutton, 1873
=Cominella (Cominula) kempi Powell, 1934
=Cominella (Cominula) quoyana A. Adams, 1855
=Cominella (Josepha) quoyana A. Adams, 1855
=Cominella (Josepha) quoyana quoyana A. Adams, 1855
=Cominella huttoni Kobelt, 1878
=Cominella quoyana quoyana A. Adams, 1855
Images: Cominella quoyana A. Adams, 1854
From off the Aldermen Islands. 21mm. © rights reserved
(youngi form) - From the Far North. 21mm. © rights reserved
Hermit crab in rock pool, Rarawa, Far North, NZ. 21mm. © rights reserved
Hermit crab in rock pool, Rarawa, Far North, NZ. 19mm. © rights reserved
Hermit crab in rock pool, Rarawa, Far North, NZ. 24mm. © rights reserved
Below low tide on sand, Henderson Bay, Far North, NZ. 20mm. © rights reserved
Holotype of Cominella (Cominula) kempi Powell, 1934, collected east of Whangaparaoa Bay, Cape Runaway, East Cape, NZ (MA70187). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
COMINELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Cominellidae (Family)
> Cominella (Genus)
> quoyana (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Buccinum luridum Hutton, 1873
=Cominella (Cominula) kempi Powell, 1934
=Cominella (Cominula) quoyana A. Adams, 1855
=Cominella (Josepha) quoyana A. Adams, 1855
=Cominella (Josepha) quoyana quoyana A. Adams, 1855
=Cominella huttoni Kobelt, 1878
=Cominella quoyana quoyana A. Adams, 1855
Details: Cominella quoyana A. Adams, 1854
Size/Grows to:
Height 26mm, Width 11mm
Distribution:
North Island as far south as Mahia Peninsula, from 0-188m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.193)

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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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