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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)
> Serrata (Genus)
> fasciata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Haloginella Laseron, 1957
=Marginella (Haloginella) Laseron, 1957
=Marginella (Serrata) Jousseaume, 1875
=Serrataginella G.A. & H.K. Coovert, 1995
Synonymised Names:
=Marginella fasciata G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
=Marginella mustellina authors not Angas, 1871
=Volvarina rubrifasciata Jousseaume, 1875
Images: Serrata fasciata (G.B. Sowerby II, 1846)
Under stones from low tide. 8mm
Neotype, collected 10 Jan 1962, Goat Island Bay, Leigh, Auckland, NZ (M.138250). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MARGINELLIDAE: AUSTROGINELLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Marginellidae (Family)
> Austroginellinae (Subfamily)
> Serrata (Genus)
> fasciata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Haloginella Laseron, 1957
=Marginella (Haloginella) Laseron, 1957
=Marginella (Serrata) Jousseaume, 1875
=Serrataginella G.A. & H.K. Coovert, 1995
Synonymised Names:
=Marginella fasciata G.B. Sowerby II, 1846
=Marginella mustellina authors not Angas, 1871
=Volvarina rubrifasciata Jousseaume, 1875
Details: Serrata fasciata (G.B. Sowerby II, 1846)
Size/Grows to:
Height 9.4mm, Width 4.5mm
Distribution:
Three Kings Islands, Far North, and north-eastern North Island to Mahia Peninsula, under stones intertidally to about 22 metres
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 2004 New names for four common Marginellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from northern New Zealand, Molluscan Research, 24 (p.8)
  • Beu, A.G., Maxwell, P.A. 1990 Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey, 58 (p.415)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.218)
  • Sowerby II, G.B. 1846 Monograph of the genus Marginella, Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells, 1(7) (p.389) 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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