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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
Geographical Range:
ACM
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

*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