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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:
North-east of Banks Peninsula, off Otago Peninsula and off Snares Islands, from 451-732m
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

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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