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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
FASCIOLARIIDAE: FASCIOLARIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Fasciolariidae (Family)
> Fasciolariinae (Subfamily)
> Glaphyrina (Genus)
> caudata (Species)
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
Images: Glaphyrina caudata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Dredged in Paterson Inlet, Stewart Island. 41mm. © rights reserved
From off Auckland East Coast, 35 metres. 33mm. © rights reserved
Holotype of Glaphyrina vulpicolor progenitor Finaly, 1927, Castlecliff, Wanganui, NZ (MA70343). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
FASCIOLARIIDAE: FASCIOLARIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Fasciolariidae (Family)
> Fasciolariinae (Subfamily)
> Glaphyrina (Genus)
> caudata (Species)
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
Details: Glaphyrina caudata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Size/Grows to:
Height 88mm, Width 37mm
Distribution:
Northern and south-western North Island, South Island and Stewart Island, from 0-549m
Notes:
Marine, Native - 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)

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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