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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)
> Provocator (Genus)
> mirabilis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Guivillea R.B. Watson, 1886
=Iredalina Finlay, 1926
=Provocator (Iredalina) Finlay, 1926 accepted, alternate representation
=Provocator (Provocator) R.B. Watson, 1882 accepted, alternate representation
=Pseudocymbium Cossmann, 1899
=Wyvillea R.B. Watson, 1882
Synonymised Names:
=Iredalina aurantia Powell, 1954
=Iredalina finlayi L.C. King, 1933
=Iredalina mirabilis Finlay, 1926
=Provocator (Iredalina) mirabilis (Finlay, 1926) accepted, alternate representation
Images: Provocator mirabilis Finlay, 1926
From deep water off Auckland Islands, NZ. 125mm
Collected 18 Jan 1998, NE of Motiti Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ (M.183154). © 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)
> Provocator (Genus)
> mirabilis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Guivillea R.B. Watson, 1886
=Iredalina Finlay, 1926
=Provocator (Iredalina) Finlay, 1926 accepted, alternate representation
=Provocator (Provocator) R.B. Watson, 1882 accepted, alternate representation
=Pseudocymbium Cossmann, 1899
=Wyvillea R.B. Watson, 1882
Synonymised Names:
=Iredalina aurantia Powell, 1954
=Iredalina finlayi L.C. King, 1933
=Iredalina mirabilis Finlay, 1926
=Provocator (Iredalina) mirabilis (Finlay, 1926) accepted, alternate representation
Details: Provocator mirabilis Finlay, 1926
Size/Grows to:
Height 178mm, Width 57mm
Distribution:
Off East Coast of North and South Island, and subantarctic islands
Geographical Range:
ACFMAn
Notes:
Golden Volute, Marine, Native - Endemic, White form occurs rarely off Auckland Islands
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • 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.64)
  • Hazelwood, B.F. Mar/1995 A recently discovered population of the Golden Volute Provocator mirabilis (Finlay 1926), Poirieria, 17(3)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.213)
  • Gardner, N.W. Mar/1966 Iredalina - Our Golden Volute, Poirieria, 3(2)
  • Finlay, H. 1926 On Iredalina, new genus: a volute without plaits, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 17(1) (p.59) 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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