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Taxonomy
Family:
PSEUDOMELATOMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Pseudomelatomidae (Family)
> Anticomitas (Genus)
> vivens (Species)
Images: Anticomitas vivens Powell, 1942
Holotype, collected in 260 metres, off Three Kings Islands, NZ (MA72180). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
PSEUDOMELATOMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Pseudomelatomidae (Family)
> Anticomitas (Genus)
> vivens (Species)
Details: Anticomitas vivens Powell, 1942
Size/Grows to:
Height 9.5mm, Width 4mm
Distribution:
Middlesex and King banks, Three Kings Islands, and off Cape Reinga, from 20-805m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.229)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1942 The New Zealand Recent and fossil Mollusca of the family Turridae with general notes on turrid nomenclature and systematics, Auckland Institute and Museum Bulletin, 2 (p.61) Original Description

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

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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