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Taxonomy
Family:
COLUMBELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Columbellidae (Family)
> Aoteatilia (Genus)
> tenuistriata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Daphnella tenuistriata Suter, 1908
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Taxonomy
Family:
COLUMBELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Columbellidae (Family)
> Aoteatilia (Genus)
> tenuistriata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Daphnella tenuistriata Suter, 1908
Details: Aoteatilia tenuistriata (Suter, 1908)
Size/Grows to:
Height 6mm, Width 2mm
Distribution:
Off Snares Islands 90 metres
Geographical Range:
An
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Only known from the holotye, which has a broken protoconch
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.191)
  • Suter, H. 1908 Descriptions of new species of New Zealand marine shells., Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 8 (p.190) 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