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Taxonomy
Family:
BORSONIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Borsoniidae (Family)
> Bathytoma (Genus)
> parengonia (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Dolichotoma Bellardi, 1875
=Micantapex Iredale, 1936
=Parabathytoma Shuto, 1961
=Pleurotoma (Bathytoma) G. F. Harris & Burrows, 1891
=Riuguhdrillia Oyama, 1951
Synonymised Names:
=Bathytoma (Riuguhdrillia) parengonia (Dell, 1956) accepted, alternate representation
=Micantapex parengonius Dell, 1956
Images: Bathytoma parengonia (Dell, 1956)
Holotype of Micantapex parengonius, collected 10 Feb 1954, Chatham Rise, NZ (M.009786). 37mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
BORSONIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Borsoniidae (Family)
> Bathytoma (Genus)
> parengonia (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Dolichotoma Bellardi, 1875
=Micantapex Iredale, 1936
=Parabathytoma Shuto, 1961
=Pleurotoma (Bathytoma) G. F. Harris & Burrows, 1891
=Riuguhdrillia Oyama, 1951
Synonymised Names:
=Bathytoma (Riuguhdrillia) parengonia (Dell, 1956) accepted, alternate representation
=Micantapex parengonius Dell, 1956
Details: Bathytoma parengonia (Dell, 1956)
Size/Grows to:
Height 49mm, Width 20mm
Distribution:
Off North Island and Chatham Rise. Trawled from around 400-1300 metres
Geographical Range:
ACFME.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.235)
  • Dell, R.K. 1956 The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand, Dominion Museum Bulletin, 18 (p.129) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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