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Taxonomy
Family:
VOLUTOMITRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Volutomitridae (Family)
> Volutomitra (Genus)
> banksi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Compsomitra Marwick, 1942
=Volutomitra (Waimatea) Finlay, 1926
=Waimatea Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Proximitra banksi Dell, 1951
Images: Volutomitra banksi (Dell, 1951)
Trawled off Otago, NZ. 45mm
Taxonomy
Family:
VOLUTOMITRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Volutomitridae (Family)
> Volutomitra (Genus)
> banksi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Compsomitra Marwick, 1942
=Volutomitra (Waimatea) Finlay, 1926
=Waimatea Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Proximitra banksi Dell, 1951
Details: Volutomitra banksi (Dell, 1951)
Size/Grows to:
Height 44mm, Width 18mm
Distribution:
South Island. Off Banks Peninsula and Chatham Rise
Geographical Range:
CFMAn
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Sometimes bears a minute operculum
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.214)
  • Hole, D.M. Oct/1978 Notes from Mr. Richard Willan's talk on Mitra and Volutomitra, Poirieria, 9(6) (p.112)
  • Dell, R.K. 1951 A Deep Water Molluscan Fauna from off Banks Peninsula, Records of the Canterbury Museum, 6(1) (p.54) Original Description

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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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