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Taxonomy
Family:
RAPHITOMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Raphitomidae (Family)
> Xanthodaphne (Genus)
> membranacea (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Pleurotoma membranacea R.B. Watson, 1886
Images: Xanthodaphne membranacea (R.B. Watson, 1886)
Syntype, collected off Cape Turnagain, Wairarapa, NZ (1887.2.9.1048)
Taxonomy
Family:
RAPHITOMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Raphitomidae (Family)
> Xanthodaphne (Genus)
> membranacea (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Pleurotoma membranacea R.B. Watson, 1886
Details: Xanthodaphne membranacea (R.B. Watson, 1886)
Size/Grows to:
Height 22mm, Width 13mm
Distribution:
South-eastern North Island and Bounty Trough, from 2012m
Type Data:
  • Off Cape Turnagain, NZ, (holotype, syntype)
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.245)
  • Watson, R.B. 1886 Report on the Scaphopoda and Gasteropoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76., Zoology, 15(42) (p.333) Original Description

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