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Taxonomy
Family:
COMINELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Cominellidae (Family)
> Cominella (Genus)
> griseicalx (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cominella (Cominula) griseicalx Willan, 1978 accepted, alternate representation
=Cominella (Josepha) quoyana griseicalx Willan, 1978
=Cominella quoyana griseicalx Willan, 1978
Images: Cominella griseicalx Willan, 1978
Off the Three Kings Islands. 18mm
Holotype, collected in 13-15 metres, South East Bay, Great Island, Three Kings Islands, NZ (MA71358). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
COMINELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Cominellidae (Family)
> Cominella (Genus)
> griseicalx (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cominella (Cominula) griseicalx Willan, 1978 accepted, alternate representation
=Cominella (Josepha) quoyana griseicalx Willan, 1978
=Cominella quoyana griseicalx Willan, 1978
Details: Cominella griseicalx Willan, 1978
Size/Grows to:
Height 23mm, Width 12mm
Distribution:
Off Three Kings Islands, Northern
Geographical Range:
A
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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)
  • Willan, R.C. Sep/1978 The molluscan genus Cominella (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) at the Three Kings Islands, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 5(3) (p.438) 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
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