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Taxonomy
Family:
TURRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Turridae (Family)
> Kuroshioturris (Genus)
> angustata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Gemmula (Kuroshioturris) Shuto, 1961
Synonymised Names:
=Lucerapex angustatus (Powell, 1940)
=Micantapex angustatus Powell, 1940
Images: Kuroshioturris angustata (Powell, 1940)
Dredged, Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ. 12mm
Collected in 430 metres, west of Chatham Islands, NZ (USNM 870656). © Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Holotype, dredged in 48 metres, off Waikuku Beach, Far North, NZ (MA70470). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Dredged, east coast Coromandel, NZ. Courtesy of Claire Elliot
Taxonomy
Family:
TURRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Turridae (Family)
> Kuroshioturris (Genus)
> angustata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Gemmula (Kuroshioturris) Shuto, 1961
Synonymised Names:
=Lucerapex angustatus (Powell, 1940)
=Micantapex angustatus Powell, 1940
Details: Kuroshioturris angustata (Powell, 1940)
Size/Grows to:
Height 15mm, Width 5.5mm
Distribution:
Off North Island to Cook Strait and Nelson, and Chatham Rise
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.74)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.228)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1940 The Marine Mollusca of the Aupourian Province, New Zealand, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 70 (p.245) Original Description

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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