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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CYSTISCIDAE: CYSTISCINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Cystiscidae (Family)
> Cystiscinae (Subfamily)
> Cystiscus (Genus)
> vidae (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Marginella (Microvulina) vidae Dell, 1956
Images: Cystiscus vidae Dell, 1956
Holotype, collected 25 Jun 1950, off White Rocks, Queen Charlotte Sound, NZ (M.006062). ~2.2mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CYSTISCIDAE: CYSTISCINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Cystiscidae (Family)
> Cystiscinae (Subfamily)
> Cystiscus (Genus)
> vidae (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Marginella (Microvulina) vidae Dell, 1956
Details: Cystiscus vidae Dell, 1956
Size/Grows to:
Height 2.4mm, Width 1.7mm
Distribution:
Off Three Kings Islands. Off eastern North Island and Queen Charlotte Sound
Geographical Range:
AC
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.218)
  • Dell, R.K. 1956 The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand, Dominion Museum Bulletin, 18 (p.126) 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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