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Taxonomy
Family:
COLUBRARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Colubrariidae (Family)
> Cumia (Genus)
> adjuncta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Fusus Helbling, 1779
=Murex (Fusus) Helbling, 1779
=Ratifusus Iredale, 1929
=Triton (Cumia) Bivona-Bernardi, 1838
Synonymised Names:
=Fusus adjunctus (Iredale, 1929)
=Ratifusus adjunctus Iredale, 1929
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Taxonomy
Family:
COLUBRARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Colubrariidae (Family)
> Cumia (Genus)
> adjuncta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Fusus Helbling, 1779
=Murex (Fusus) Helbling, 1779
=Ratifusus Iredale, 1929
=Triton (Cumia) Bivona-Bernardi, 1838
Synonymised Names:
=Fusus adjunctus (Iredale, 1929)
=Ratifusus adjunctus Iredale, 1929
Details: Cumia adjuncta (Iredale, 1929)
Size/Grows to:
Height 18mm, Width 7mm
Distribution:
South-eastern Australia, Wanganella Bank and Poor Knight Islands, from 113-329m
Type Data:
  • New South Wales, Australia, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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References and Publications
  • Beu, A.G., Maxwell, P.A. 1987 A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.) with an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817, New Zealand Geological Survey, 54 (p.61)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.203)
  • Iredale, T. 1929 Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia, Records of the Australian Museum, 147(4) (p.183) 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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