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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MARGINELLIDAE: AUSTROGINELLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Marginellidae (Family)
> Austroginellinae (Subfamily)
> Ovaginella (Genus)
> maoria (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Closia maoria Powell, 1937
=Marginella maoria Powell, 1937
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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MARGINELLIDAE: AUSTROGINELLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Marginellidae (Family)
> Austroginellinae (Subfamily)
> Ovaginella (Genus)
> maoria (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Closia maoria Powell, 1937
=Marginella maoria Powell, 1937
Details: Ovaginella maoria (Powell, 1937)
Size/Grows to:
Height 7mm, Width 5mm
Distribution:
Wanganella, Middlesex and King Banks, and off northern tip of Northland, from 30-805m
Type Data:
  • 260 metres, off Three Kings Islands, NZ, (holotype)
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.222)
  • Gardner, N.W. Sep/1965 Marginella maoria, Poirieria, 2(6)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1937 New Species of Marine Mollusca from New Zealand, Discovery Reports, 15 (p.217) Original Description

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