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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)
> profunda (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cryptospira (Closia) profunda Suter, 1909
=Marginella profunda Suter, 1909
Images: Ovaginella profunda (Suter, 1909)
Collected in shell sand dredged in 180 metres, off Otago Peninsula, NZ. 7.0mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MARGINELLIDAE: AUSTROGINELLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Marginellidae (Family)
> Austroginellinae (Subfamily)
> Ovaginella (Genus)
> profunda (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cryptospira (Closia) profunda Suter, 1909
=Marginella profunda Suter, 1909
Details: Ovaginella profunda (Suter, 1909)
Size/Grows to:
Height 7.0mm, Width 4.9mm
Distribution:
Off eastern Otago, 180 metres
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)
  • Suter, H. 1909 Scientific results of the New Zealand government trawling expedition, 1908. Mollusca., Records of the Canterbury Museum, 1 (p.117) 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
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