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Taxonomy
Family:
COLUBRARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Colubrariidae (Family)
> Iredalula (Genus)
> alticincta (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Iredalula venusta Powell, 1934
=Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) alticincta Murdoch & Suter, 1906
Images: Iredalula alticincta (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Holotype, collected 22 Jan 1904, E of Great Barrier Island, NZ (M.001724). ~16mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype of Iredalula venusta Powell, collected off Cape Campbell, Marlborough, NZ (MA72071). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
COLUBRARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Colubrariidae (Family)
> Iredalula (Genus)
> alticincta (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Iredalula venusta Powell, 1934
=Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) alticincta Murdoch & Suter, 1906
Details: Iredalula alticincta (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Size/Grows to:
Height 23mm, Width 8mm
Distribution:
North Island and northern South Island, from 47-502m
Type Data:
  • 200 metres, E of Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf, NZ, (holotype)
  • Off Cape Campbell, SE of Blenheim, NZ, (type of venusta Powell, 1934)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Beu, A.G. 2011 Marine Mollusca of isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia), Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 41 (p.40)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.204)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1934 Gastropods new to the New Zealand Fauna; with descriptions of six new Species and a new Subspecies, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 64 (p.157)
  • Murdoch, R., Suter, H. 1906 Results of dredging on the continental shelf of New Zealand., Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 38 (p.285) 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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