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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
Geographical Range:
AC
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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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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