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Taxonomy
Family:
BORSONIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Borsoniidae (Family)
> Maoritomella (Genus)
> orientalis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Narraweena Laseron, 1954
=Tomopleura T.L. Casey, 1904
Synonymised Names:
=Tomopleura orientalis (Dell, 1956)
Images: Maoritomella orientalis Dell, 1956
Holotype, collected 20 May 1952, SE of Cape Kidnappers, NZ (M.008843). ~9mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
BORSONIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Borsoniidae (Family)
> Maoritomella (Genus)
> orientalis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Narraweena Laseron, 1954
=Tomopleura T.L. Casey, 1904
Synonymised Names:
=Tomopleura orientalis (Dell, 1956)
Details: Maoritomella orientalis Dell, 1956
Size/Grows to:
Height 10.5mm, Width 4mm
Distribution:
Off Hawkes Bay, North Island, 180 metres
Geographical Range:
CE.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.235)
  • Dell, R.K. 1956 Some new off-shore Mollusca from New Zealand., Records of the Dominion Museum, 3(1) (p.57) Original Description

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