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Taxonomy
Family:
VOLUTOMITRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Volutomitridae (Family)
> Peculator (Genus)
> obconicus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Parvimitra Finlay, 1930
Synonymised Names:
=Microvoluta obconica Powell, 1952
Images: Peculator obconicus (Powell, 1952)
Holotype, collected Aug 1932, in 260 metres, off Three Kings Islands, NZ (MA71194). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
VOLUTOMITRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Volutomitridae (Family)
> Peculator (Genus)
> obconicus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Parvimitra Finlay, 1930
Synonymised Names:
=Microvoluta obconica Powell, 1952
Details: Peculator obconicus (Powell, 1952)
Size/Grows to:
Height 7mm, Width 3.5mm
Distribution:
Off Three Kings Islands and off Spirits Bay, Far North
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.214)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1952 New Zealand Molluscan Systematics with Descriptions of New Species: Part 1, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 4(3) (p.183) 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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