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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)
> otagoensis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Deviginella Laseron, 1957
=Mesoginella (Sinuginella) Laseron, 1957
=Sinuginella Laseron, 1957
=Spiroginella Laseron, 1957
Synonymised Names:
=Marginella (Glabella) otagoensis Dell, 1956
=Marginella otagoensis Dell, 1956
=Sinuginella otagoensis (Dell, 1956)
Images: Mesoginella otagoensis (Dell, 1956)
Holotype of Marginella (Glabella) otagoensis, collected 16 Aug 1955, Taiaroa Canyon, off Otago Peninsula, NZ (M.009320). ~5mm. © 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)
> otagoensis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Deviginella Laseron, 1957
=Mesoginella (Sinuginella) Laseron, 1957
=Sinuginella Laseron, 1957
=Spiroginella Laseron, 1957
Synonymised Names:
=Marginella (Glabella) otagoensis Dell, 1956
=Marginella otagoensis Dell, 1956
=Sinuginella otagoensis (Dell, 1956)
Details: Mesoginella otagoensis (Dell, 1956)
Size/Grows to:
Height 5mm, Width 3.2mm
Distribution:
Off eastern Otago, 550 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.220)
  • Dell, R.K. 1956 The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand, Dominion Museum Bulletin, 18 (p.127) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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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