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Taxonomy
Family:
VOLUTOMITRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Volutomitridae (Family)
> Microvoluta (Genus)
> marginata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Microvoluta cuvierensis Finlay, 1930
=Turricula lincta Hutton, 1885
=Turricula marginata Hutton, 1885
=Vulpecula (Pusia) biconica Murdoch & Suter, 1906
=Vulpecula biconica Murdoch & Suter, 1906
=Vulpecula marginata (Hutton, 1885)
Images: Microvoluta marginata (Hutton, 1885)
Collected 22 Jan 1904, E of Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf, NZ (M.001738). ~5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype of Microvoluta cuvierensis Finlay, 1930, collected off Cuvier Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ (MA70473). ~7mm. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Collected in deep water, off Aldermen Islands, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 8mm
Taxonomy
Family:
VOLUTOMITRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Volutomitridae (Family)
> Microvoluta (Genus)
> marginata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Microvoluta cuvierensis Finlay, 1930
=Turricula lincta Hutton, 1885
=Turricula marginata Hutton, 1885
=Vulpecula (Pusia) biconica Murdoch & Suter, 1906
=Vulpecula biconica Murdoch & Suter, 1906
=Vulpecula marginata (Hutton, 1885)
Details: Microvoluta marginata (Hutton, 1885)
Size/Grows to:
Height 8mm, Width 3.5mm
Distribution:
North, South and Stewart and Snares Islands. Trawled around 35-500 metres
Geographical Range:
ACFAn
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.215)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1885 Descriptions of new Tertiary shells. Part 1, Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 17 (p.315) 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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