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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)
> Microfulgur (Genus)
> carinatus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Pararetifusus carinatus (Ponder, 1970)
Images: Microfulgur carinatus Ponder, 1970
Holotype, collected 1967, Papanui Canyon, NZ (M.023204). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
FASCIOLARIIDAE: FUSININAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Fasciolariidae (Family)
> Fusininae (Subfamily)
> Microfulgur (Genus)
> carinatus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Pararetifusus carinatus (Ponder, 1970)
Details: Microfulgur carinatus Ponder, 1970
Size/Grows to:
Height 25mm, Width 9.5mm
Distribution:
South Island. Papanui Canyon, trawled off eastern Otago in 500-700 metres
Geographical Range:
F
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Beu, A.G., Maxwell, P.A. 1990 Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey, 58 (p.83)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.207)
  • Ponder, W.F. 1970 A new archibenthal species of Fasciolariidae from New Zealand, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 2(1) (p.1) Original Description

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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