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Taxonomy
Family:
RAPHITOMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Raphitomidae (Family)
> Taranis (Genus)
> benthicola (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Allo Jousseaume, 1934
=Feliciella Lamy, 1934
=Fenestrosyrinx Finlay, 1926
=Mangelia (Taranis) Jeffreys, 1870
Synonymised Names:
=Fenestrosyrinx benthicola Dell, 1956
Images: Taranis benthicola (Dell, 1956)
Collected 16 Aug 1955, Taiaroa Canyon, off Otago Peninsula, NZ (M.009259). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
RAPHITOMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Raphitomidae (Family)
> Taranis (Genus)
> benthicola (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Allo Jousseaume, 1934
=Feliciella Lamy, 1934
=Fenestrosyrinx Finlay, 1926
=Mangelia (Taranis) Jeffreys, 1870
Synonymised Names:
=Fenestrosyrinx benthicola Dell, 1956
Details: Taranis benthicola (Dell, 1956)
Size/Grows to:
Height 5.5mm, Width 2.7mm
Distribution:
Off eastern North and South Islands, Fiordland and Chatham Rise
Geographical Range:
ACFM
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.226)
  • Dell, R.K. 1956 The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand, Dominion Museum Bulletin, 18 (p.141) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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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