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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
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

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Freshwater
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Land
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North Island
S =
South Island
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Recent
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Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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