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Taxonomy
Family:
COLUMBELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Columbellidae (Family)
> Zemitrella (Genus)
> sulcata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Columbella huttoni Suter, 1904
=Columbella inconstans Suter, 1906
=Columbella varians Hutton, 1885
=Lachesis sulcata Hutton, 1873
=Zemitrella sulcata sulcata (Hutton, 1873) accepted, alternate representation
Images: Zemitrella sulcata (Hutton, 1873)
Syntype, collected no other data, NZ (M.000083). 8mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
120-200 metres, Taiaroa Canyon, Otago, NZ. 7mm
Taxonomy
Family:
COLUMBELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Columbellidae (Family)
> Zemitrella (Genus)
> sulcata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Columbella huttoni Suter, 1904
=Columbella inconstans Suter, 1906
=Columbella varians Hutton, 1885
=Lachesis sulcata Hutton, 1873
=Zemitrella sulcata sulcata (Hutton, 1873) accepted, alternate representation
Details: Zemitrella sulcata (Hutton, 1873)
Size/Grows to:
Height 9mm, Width 4mm
Distribution:
South Island, from Cook Strait south to Snares and Auckland Island
Geographical Range:
F
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.187)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1873 Catalogue of the Marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species, Dominion Museum (NZ) (p.12) 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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