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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CANCELLARIIDAE: CANCELLARIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Cancellariidae (Family)
> Cancellariinae (Subfamily)
> Oamaruia (Genus)
> deleta (Species)
Images: Oamaruia deleta Finlay, 1930
Holotype, collected in 110 metres, off Poor Knights Islands, NZ (MA70557). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CANCELLARIIDAE: CANCELLARIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Cancellariidae (Family)
> Cancellariinae (Subfamily)
> Oamaruia (Genus)
> deleta (Species)
Details: Oamaruia deleta Finlay, 1930
Size/Grows to:
Height 11mm, Width 5.5mm
Distribution:
Off Northland to Bay of Plenty, 110-220 matres
Geographical Range:
A
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.224)
  • Finlay, H. 1930 Additions to the Recent fauna of New Zealand. No. 3, Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 61 (p.241) Original Description

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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