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Taxonomy
Family:
MITROMORPHIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Mitromorphidae (Family)
> Mitromorpha (Genus)
> barrierensis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Clinomitra Bellardi, 1889
=Diptychomitra Bellardi, 1889
=Helenella T.L. Casey, 1904
=Mitramorpha (variant spelling)
=Mitrithara Hedley, 1922
=Mitrolumna Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883
=Mitromorpha (Mitrolumna) Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883
=Mitromorpha (Mitromorpha) Carpenter, 1865
Synonymised Names:
=Mitrithara barrierensis Powell, 1942
Images: Mitromorpha barrierensis (Powell, 1942)
Holotype, from 37 metres, off Little Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf, NZ (MA72187). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
MITROMORPHIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Mitromorphidae (Family)
> Mitromorpha (Genus)
> barrierensis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Clinomitra Bellardi, 1889
=Diptychomitra Bellardi, 1889
=Helenella T.L. Casey, 1904
=Mitramorpha (variant spelling)
=Mitrithara Hedley, 1922
=Mitrolumna Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883
=Mitromorpha (Mitrolumna) Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883
=Mitromorpha (Mitromorpha) Carpenter, 1865
Synonymised Names:
=Mitrithara barrierensis Powell, 1942
Details: Mitromorpha barrierensis (Powell, 1942)
Size/Grows to:
Height 7mm, Width 3mm
Distribution:
North-eastern North Island, from 63-178m
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.236)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1942 The New Zealand Recent and fossil Mollusca of the family Turridae with general notes on turrid nomenclature and systematics, Auckland Institute and Museum Bulletin, 2 (p.124) 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