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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
FASCIOLARIIDAE: FUSININAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Fasciolariidae (Family)
> Fusininae (Subfamily)
> Cyrtulus (Genus)
> genticus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Colus genticus Iredale, 1936
=Fusinus genticus (Iredale, 1936)
Images: Cyrtulus genticus (Iredale, 1936)
Off Doubtless Bay, Northland, NZ. 132mm
In beach drift, Far North, NZ. 144mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
FASCIOLARIIDAE: FUSININAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Fasciolariidae (Family)
> Fusininae (Subfamily)
> Cyrtulus (Genus)
> genticus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Colus genticus Iredale, 1936
=Fusinus genticus (Iredale, 1936)
Details: Cyrtulus genticus (Iredale, 1936)
Size/Grows to:
Height 170mm, Width 65mm
Distribution:
Off Northland and Bay of Plenty, dredged and in cray pots. Also Sydney, Australia
Geographical Range:
KA
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.225)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.206)
  • O'Neill, S. Jun/1974 A few notes on a live Fusinus genticus dredged at the Bay of Islands, Poirieria, 7(4) (p.76)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1967 New Zealand Molluscan Systematics with Descriptions of New Species: Part 6, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 6(3) (p.194)
  • Iredale, T. 1936 Australian Molluscan Notes No.2, Records of the Australian Museum, 19(5) (p.316) Original Description

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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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