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Taxonomy
Family:
PSEUDOMELATOMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Pseudomelatomidae (Family)
> Antimelatoma (Genus)
> buchanani (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Antimelatoma ahiparana Powell, 1942
=Antimelatoma benthicola Powell, 1942
=Antimelatoma buchanani maorum (E.A. Smith, 1877)
=Drillia maorum E.A. Smith, 1877
=Pleurotoma buchanani Hutton, 1873
Images: Antimelatoma buchanani (E.A. Smith, 1877)
In beach drift, Northland. 20mm. © rights reserved
Holotype of Antimelatoma ahiparana Powell, 1942, trawled in 42 metres, off Ahipara, Ninety Mile Beach, Far North, NZ (MA72181). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
PSEUDOMELATOMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Pseudomelatomidae (Family)
> Antimelatoma (Genus)
> buchanani (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Antimelatoma ahiparana Powell, 1942
=Antimelatoma benthicola Powell, 1942
=Antimelatoma buchanani maorum (E.A. Smith, 1877)
=Drillia maorum E.A. Smith, 1877
=Pleurotoma buchanani Hutton, 1873
Details: Antimelatoma buchanani (E.A. Smith, 1877)
Size/Grows to:
Height 20mm, Width 6mm
Distribution:
Three Kings Islands, northern and south-western North Island, Cook Strait and South Island, from 0-508m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Beu, A.G. 2011 Marine Mollusca of isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia), Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 41 (p.87)
  • Morley, M.S. Nov/1980 Oneroa, Waiheke Island, Poirieria, 10(6) (p.99)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.231)
  • Feb/1977 Antimelatoma buchanani maorum, Poirieria, 8(6)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1873 Catalogue of the Tertiary Mollusca and Echinodermata of New Zealand, in the collection of the Colonial Museum, Didsbury, Government Printer, Wellington 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
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