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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
VOLUTIDAE: CYMBIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Volutidae (Family)
> Cymbiinae (Subfamily)
> Alcithoe (Genus)
> wilsonae (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Alcithoe (Leporemax) Iredale, 1937
=Gilvostia Iredale, 1937
=Leporemax Iredale, 1937
=Pachymelon (Palomelon) Finlay, 1926
=Palomelon Finlay, 1926
=Voluta (Alcithoe) H. & A. Adams, 1853
=Waihaoia (Palomelon) Finlay, 1926
=Waihaoia (Teremelon) Marwick, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Alcithoe chathamensis (Dell, 1956)
=Alcithoe knoxi (Dell, 1956)
=Alcithoe wilsonae acuminata Bail & Limpus, 2005
=Alcithoe wilsonae wilsonae (Powell, 1933)
=Leporemax chathamensis Dell, 1956
=Pachymelon (Palomelon) grahami Powell, 1965
=Pachymelon (Palomelon) smithi Powell, 1950
=Pachymelon (Palomelon) wilsonae Powell, 1933
=Teremelon knoxi Dell, 1956
Images: Alcithoe wilsonae (Powell, 1933)
(wilsonae form) - Trawled off the Chatham Islands. 111mm
(grahami form) - Trawled off Snares Bank, Sub-antarctic Islands, NZ
(smithi form) - Trawled off Otago Heads. 109mm
(knoxi form) - Off the south of NZ. 71mm
(acuminata form) - Trawled 400 metres, Chatham Rise. 90mm
(chathamensis form) - Holotype of Leporemax chathamensis, collected 1 Feb 1954, E of Forty Fours, Chatham Islands, NZ (M.009783). ~50mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
VOLUTIDAE: CYMBIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Volutidae (Family)
> Cymbiinae (Subfamily)
> Alcithoe (Genus)
> wilsonae (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Alcithoe (Leporemax) Iredale, 1937
=Gilvostia Iredale, 1937
=Leporemax Iredale, 1937
=Pachymelon (Palomelon) Finlay, 1926
=Palomelon Finlay, 1926
=Voluta (Alcithoe) H. & A. Adams, 1853
=Waihaoia (Palomelon) Finlay, 1926
=Waihaoia (Teremelon) Marwick, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Alcithoe chathamensis (Dell, 1956)
=Alcithoe knoxi (Dell, 1956)
=Alcithoe wilsonae acuminata Bail & Limpus, 2005
=Alcithoe wilsonae wilsonae (Powell, 1933)
=Leporemax chathamensis Dell, 1956
=Pachymelon (Palomelon) grahami Powell, 1965
=Pachymelon (Palomelon) smithi Powell, 1950
=Pachymelon (Palomelon) wilsonae Powell, 1933
=Teremelon knoxi Dell, 1956
Details: Alcithoe wilsonae (Powell, 1933)
Size/Grows to:
Height 111mm, Width 43mm
Distribution:
Off eastern Otago, Chatham Rise and Auckland Islands to Campbell Plateau, 50-580 metres
Geographical Range:
CFMAn
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Mead, K., Carson, K., Raven, J.L., Couper, J., Elliot, M., Elliot, C., Bracegirdle, S. Nov/2021 Notes on NZ Collected Species, Cookia, 33 (p.18)
  • Hills, S.F.K., Crampton, J.S., Trewick, S.A., Morgan-Richards, M. 2012 DNA and Morphology unite two species and 10 million year old Fossils, PLoS ONE, 7(12) (p.11)
  • Bail, P., Limpus, A. 2005 A Conchological Iconography 11, The Recent Volutes of New Zealand, with a revision of the genus Alcithoe H. & A. Adams, 1853, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany (p.55)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.209)
  • Dell, R.K. 1978 Additions to the New Zealand Recent molluscan fauna with notes on Pachymelon (Palomelon), National Museum of New Zealand Records, 1(11) (p.171)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1965 New Zealand Molluscan Systematics with Descriptions of New Species: Part 5, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 6(2) (p.166)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1950 Mollusca from the continental shelf, eastern Otago, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 4 (p.81)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1933 The marine Mollusca of the Chatham Islands, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 1 (p.204) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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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