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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
(youngi form) - From the Far North. 21mm
Hermit crab in rock pool, Rarawa, Far North, NZ. 21mm
Hermit crab in rock pool, Rarawa, Far North, NZ. 19mm
Hermit crab in rock pool, Rarawa, Far North, NZ. 24mm
Below low tide on sand, Henderson Bay, Far North, NZ. 20mm
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:
Northern part of North Island to Mahia
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)

*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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