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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
Geographical Range:
AC
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

*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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