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Glaphyrina caudata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)Species Images
Dredged in Paterson Inlet, Stewart Island. 41mm
From off Auckland East Coast, 35 metres. 33mm
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Taxonomy: Glaphyrina caudata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Buccinoidea (Superfamily) > Fasciolariidae (Family) > Fasciolariinae (Subfamily) > Glaphyrina (Genus) > caudata (Species)
Family: Subfamily:
FASCIOLARIIDAE: FASCIOLARIINAE
Synonymised Names:
=Fusus caudatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
=Fusus vulpicolor G.B. Sowerby II, 1880
=Glaphyrina progenitor Finlay, 1926
=Glaphyrina vulpicolor (G.B. Sowerby II, 1880)
=Glaphyrina vulpicolor annectens Powell, 1934
=Glaphyrina vulpicolor progenitor Finlay, 1926
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Details: Glaphyrina caudata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Size/Grows to:
Height 88mm, Width 37mm
Distribution:
Northland to Foveaux Strait
Geographical Range:
ACFE.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.207)
  • Cernohorsky, W.O. 1977 The taxonomy of some molluscan species reported from New Zealand, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 14 (p.101)

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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil