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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CANCELLARIIDAE: ADMETINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Cancellariidae (Family)
> Admetinae (Subfamily)
> Admetula (Genus)
> superstes (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Cancellaria (Admetula) Cossmann, 1889
Synonymised Names:
=Bonellitia superstes Finlay, 1930
Images: Admetula superstes (Finlay, 1930)
Trawled in the Bay of Plenty. 14mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CANCELLARIIDAE: ADMETINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Cancellariidae (Family)
> Admetinae (Subfamily)
> Admetula (Genus)
> superstes (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Cancellaria (Admetula) Cossmann, 1889
Synonymised Names:
=Bonellitia superstes Finlay, 1930
Details: Admetula superstes (Finlay, 1930)
Size/Grows to:
Height 15mm, Width 9mm
Distribution:
North Island. Off North Cape to Cook Strait, trawled around 45-175 metres
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Bouchet, P., Petit, R.E. 2008 New species and new records of southwest Pacific Cancellariidae (Gastropoda), The Nautilus, 122(1) (p.6)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.224)
  • Aug/1969 Bonellitia superstes, Poirieria, 5(1)
  • Finlay, H. 1930 Additions to the Recent fauna of New Zealand. No. 3, Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 61 (p.240) Original Description

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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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