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Taxonomy
Family:
CONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Conidae (Family)
> Conus (Genus)
> lischkeanus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Calamiconus kermadecensis (Iredale, 1912)
=Calamiconus lischkeanus (Weinkauff, 1875)
=Conus (Lividoconus) kermadecensis Iredale, 1912
=Conus (Lividoconus) lischkeanus Weinkauff, 1875
=Conus (Lividoconus) lischkeanus kermadecensis Iredale, 1912
=Conus kermadecensis Iredale, 1912
=Conus lischkeanus kermadecensis Iredale, 1912
Images: Conus lischkeanus Weinkauff, 1875
Parengarenga Harbour, Far North, NZ
Parengarenga Harbour, Far North, NZ
SCUBA at 10-15 metres. 21mm
Taxonomy
Family:
CONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Conidae (Family)
> Conus (Genus)
> lischkeanus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Calamiconus kermadecensis (Iredale, 1912)
=Calamiconus lischkeanus (Weinkauff, 1875)
=Conus (Lividoconus) kermadecensis Iredale, 1912
=Conus (Lividoconus) lischkeanus Weinkauff, 1875
=Conus (Lividoconus) lischkeanus kermadecensis Iredale, 1912
=Conus kermadecensis Iredale, 1912
=Conus lischkeanus kermadecensis Iredale, 1912
Details: Conus lischkeanus Weinkauff, 1875
Size/Grows to:
Height 61mm, Width 24mm
Distribution:
North NZ, intertidal to 73 metres. Also Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
KA
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Puillandre, N., Duda, T.F., Meyer, C., Olivera, B.M., Bouchet, P. 2015 One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails, Journal of Molluscan Studies, 81 (p.10)
  • Tucker, J.K., Tenorio, M.J. 2009 Systematic classification of Recent and Fossil Conoidean Gastropods: with keys to the genera of cone shells, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany (p.86)
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.227)
  • Adams, R. Oct/1995 Conilithes wollastoni, Maxwell and Cone Shells in NZ, Poirieria, 17(4) (p.7)
  • Coomans, H.E., Filmer, R.M. 1985 Studies of Conidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) 3: Systematics and distribution of some Australian species, including two new taxa, Beaufortia, 35 (p.10)
  • Marshall, B.A. 1981 New records of Conidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the New Zealand region, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 8(4) (p.493)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.245)
  • Mar/1972 Notes of Interest: Conus kermadecensis, Poirieria, 6(3) (p.58)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1972 A Kermadec Island Conus (Mollusca: Gastropoda) found living in northern New Zealand waters, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 9 (p.250)
  • Iredale, T. 1912 New generic names and new species of marine Mollusca, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 10(3) (p.227) 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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