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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
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

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NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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