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Taxonomy
Family:
MITROMORPHIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Mitromorphidae (Family)
> Mitromorpha (Genus)
> benthicola (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:
=Itia benthicola Dell, 1962
=Mitrithara benthicola (Dell, 1962)
Images: Mitromorpha benthicola (Dell, 1962)
Holotype, collected 23 Jan 1957, NE of Otago Peninsula, Taiaroa Canyon, NZ (M.015010). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
MITROMORPHIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Mitromorphidae (Family)
> Mitromorpha (Genus)
> benthicola (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:
=Itia benthicola Dell, 1962
=Mitrithara benthicola (Dell, 1962)
Details: Mitromorpha benthicola (Dell, 1962)
Size/Grows to:
Height 6mm, Width 2.8mm
Distribution:
Off Taiaroa Heads, eastern Otago 550 metres
Geographical Range:
FE.
Notes:
Marine, 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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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