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Taxonomy
Family:
ARCHITECTONICIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> 'Lower Heterobranchia' (Infraclass)
> Architectonicoidea (Superfamily)
> Architectonicidae (Family)
> Adelphotectonica (Genus)
> nomotoi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Architectonica (Adelphotectonica) Bieler, 1987
Synonymised Names:
=Architectonica nomotoi Kosuge, 1979
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Taxonomy
Family:
ARCHITECTONICIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> 'Lower Heterobranchia' (Infraclass)
> Architectonicoidea (Superfamily)
> Architectonicidae (Family)
> Adelphotectonica (Genus)
> nomotoi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Architectonica (Adelphotectonica) Bieler, 1987
Synonymised Names:
=Architectonica nomotoi Kosuge, 1979
Details: Adelphotectonica nomotoi (Kosuge, 1979)
Size/Grows to:
Width 16mm
Distribution:
Known from disjunct localities in southern Africa, New Caledonia, New Zealand and the Midway Islands. Sublittoral to upper bathyal (depth records between 74 and 430 metres), live records from 100-115 metres
Geographical Range:
A
Notes:
Marine, Proxumbilical rib absent
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Bieler, R. 1993 Architectonicidae of the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca, Gastropoda), Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF), 30 (p.107)
  • Kosuge, S. 1979 Report on the Mollusca on guyots from the Central Pacific collected by the 2nd and 3rd cruises of R/V Kaiyomaru in 1972 to 73 with descriptions of twelve new species, Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo, 1(2) (p.33) 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
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil