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Family:
RAPHITOMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Raphitomidae (Family)
> Veprecula (Genus)
> cooperi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Mordica Dall, 1924
Images: Veprecula cooperi Mestayer, 1919
Dredged, Deep Water Cove, Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ. 5.5mm
Taxonomy
Family:
RAPHITOMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Raphitomidae (Family)
> Veprecula (Genus)
> cooperi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Mordica Dall, 1924
Details: Veprecula cooperi Mestayer, 1919
Size/Grows to:
Height 5.5mm, Width 2.2mm
Distribution:
Off Three Kings Islands, and Northland to Bay of Plenty
Geographical Range:
A
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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