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Taxonomy
Family:
AUSTROSIPHONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Austrosiphonidae (Family)
> Antarctoneptunea (Genus)
> benthicola (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Penion benthicolus Dell, 1956
=Penion benthicolus delli Powell, 1971
Images: Antarctoneptunea benthicola Dell, 1956
Dredged in deep water off the Chatham Rise, NZ. 106mm. © rights reserved
(delli form) - From deep water off Hawkes Bay, NZ. 106mm. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family:
AUSTROSIPHONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Austrosiphonidae (Family)
> Antarctoneptunea (Genus)
> benthicola (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Penion benthicolus Dell, 1956
=Penion benthicolus delli Powell, 1971
Details: Antarctoneptunea benthicola Dell, 1956
Size/Grows to:
Height 100mm, Width 40mm
Distribution:
West Norfolk Ridge, northern North Island, Challenger Plateau, Cook Strait, eastern North Island, S of Stewart Island, Snares, Auckland and Antipodes Islands, Bounty Plateau and Chatham Rise, from 103-1676m
Type Data:
  • 350-500 metres, ENE of Poor Knights Islands, NZ, (type of delli Powell, 1971)
  • 400 metres, Chatham Rise, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Vaux, F., Hills, S.F.K., Marshall, B.A., Trewick, S.A., Morgan-Richards, M. 2017 A phylogeny of Southern Hemisphere whelks (Gastropoda: Buccinulidae) and concordance with the fossil record, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 114 (p.367)
  • Dell, R.K. 1995 New species and records of deep-water Mollusca from off New Zealand, Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 2 (p.13)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.201)
  • Dell, R.K. 1956 The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand, Dominion Museum Bulletin, 18 (p.96) 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