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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. © rights reserved
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:
Western North Island between Muriwai and Port Waikato, from 0m
Type Data:
  • Between Muriwai and Te Henga, Waitakere, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Low intertidal
Description:
More slender than Cominella quoyana, whorls evenly convex, not shouldered; interior of the aperture is strongly lirae

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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

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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