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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)
> vailei (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Deviginella Laseron, 1957
=Mesoginella (Sinuginella) Laseron, 1957
=Sinuginella Laseron, 1957
=Spiroginella Laseron, 1957
Synonymised Names:
=Marginella vailei Powell, 1932
Images: Mesoginella vailei (Powell, 1932)
From the Far North, NZ. 8mm. © rights reserved
Holotype, collected 1896, Cape Maria van Diemen, Far North, NZ (MA70445). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MARGINELLIDAE: AUSTROGINELLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Marginellidae (Family)
> Austroginellinae (Subfamily)
> Mesoginella (Genus)
> vailei (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Deviginella Laseron, 1957
=Mesoginella (Sinuginella) Laseron, 1957
=Sinuginella Laseron, 1957
=Spiroginella Laseron, 1957
Synonymised Names:
=Marginella vailei Powell, 1932
Details: Mesoginella vailei (Powell, 1932)
Size/Grows to:
Height 8mm, Width 5mm
Distribution:
Northern tip of Northland, from 0-55m
Type Data:
  • Cape Maria van Diemen, NZ, (holotype)
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.221)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1932 The recent Marginellidae of New Zealand, with descriptions of some new Species, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 62 (p.206) Original Description

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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