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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)
> koma (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Deviginella Laseron, 1957
=Mesoginella (Sinuginella) Laseron, 1957
=Sinuginella Laseron, 1957
=Spiroginella Laseron, 1957
Synonymised Names:
=Mesoginella (Sinuginella) pygmaea authors not Sowerby, 1846
Images: Mesoginella koma B.A. Marshall, 2004
Dead, under a rock at low tide. Henderson Bay, Far North, NZ. 4.5mm
Holotype, collected 18 May 1961, Whangarei Harbour, Taurikura Bay, between High Island & shore, NZ (M.138047). ~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)
> koma (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Deviginella Laseron, 1957
=Mesoginella (Sinuginella) Laseron, 1957
=Sinuginella Laseron, 1957
=Spiroginella Laseron, 1957
Synonymised Names:
=Mesoginella (Sinuginella) pygmaea authors not Sowerby, 1846
Details: Mesoginella koma B.A. Marshall, 2004
Size/Grows to:
Height 7mm, Width 4.8mm
Distribution:
Northland to Mahia
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.14) Original Description
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.220)

*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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