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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)
> Mesoginella (Genus)
> ergastula (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Deviginella Laseron, 1957
=Mesoginella (Sinuginella) Laseron, 1957
=Sinuginella Laseron, 1957
=Spiroginella Laseron, 1957
Synonymised Names:
=Marginella (Glabella) ergastula Dell, 1953
=Marginella ergastula Dell, 1953
=Sinuginella ergastula (Dell, 1953)
Images: Mesoginella ergastula (Dell, 1953)
Holotype of Marginella (Glabella) ergastula, collected 4 Nov 1950, Chatham Rise, NZ (M.005673). 4mm. © 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)
> Mesoginella (Genus)
> ergastula (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Deviginella Laseron, 1957
=Mesoginella (Sinuginella) Laseron, 1957
=Sinuginella Laseron, 1957
=Spiroginella Laseron, 1957
Synonymised Names:
=Marginella (Glabella) ergastula Dell, 1953
=Marginella ergastula Dell, 1953
=Sinuginella ergastula (Dell, 1953)
Details: Mesoginella ergastula (Dell, 1953)
Size/Grows to:
Height 4mm, Width 2.7mm
Distribution:
Chatham Rise
Geographical Range:
ME.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic
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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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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