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Taxonomy
Family:
COMINELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Cominellidae (Family)
> Cominella (Genus)
> accuminata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cominella (Cominula) acuminata Hutton, 1893
=Cominella (Josepha) acuminata Hutton, 1893
=Cominella (Josepha) quoyana accuminata Hutton, 1893
=Cominella (Josepha) quoyana euthriaformis Powell, 1929
=Cominella acuminata Hutton, 1893
=Cominella elongata Hutton, 1885
=Cominella euthriaformis Powell, 1929
=Cominella quoyana accuminata Hutton, 1893
Images: Cominella accuminata Hutton, 1893
Reef Point, Ahipara, Far North, NZ. 22mm
Holotype, collected between Muriwai and Te Henga, Waitakere, NZ (MA72050). 20mm. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
COMINELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Cominellidae (Family)
> Cominella (Genus)
> accuminata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cominella (Cominula) acuminata Hutton, 1893
=Cominella (Josepha) acuminata Hutton, 1893
=Cominella (Josepha) quoyana accuminata Hutton, 1893
=Cominella (Josepha) quoyana euthriaformis Powell, 1929
=Cominella acuminata Hutton, 1893
=Cominella elongata Hutton, 1885
=Cominella euthriaformis Powell, 1929
=Cominella quoyana accuminata Hutton, 1893
Details: Cominella accuminata Hutton, 1893
Size/Grows to:
Height 20mm, Width 9mm
Distribution:
Northland west coast
Geographical Range:
A
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, More slender than C. quoyana, whorls evenly convex, not shouldered; interior of the aperture is strongly lirae
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Donald, K.M., Winter, D.J., Ashcroft, A.L., Spencer, H.G. 2015 Phylogeography of the whelk genus Cominella (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) suggests long-distance counter-current dispersal of a direct developer., Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 115 (p.328)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.193)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1893 The Pliocene Mollusca of New Zealand, The MacLeay Memorial Volume. Linnean Society of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (p.43) Original Description

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