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Taxonomy
Family:
ARCHITECTONICIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> 'Lower Heterobranchia' (Infraclass)
> Architectonicoidea (Superfamily)
> Architectonicidae (Family)
> Heliacus (Genus)
> asteleformis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Gyriscus Tiberi, 1867 accepted, alternate representation
=Heliacus (Gyriscus) Tiberi, 1867
=Heliacus (Heliacus) d'Orbigny, 1842
=Heliacus (Torinista) Iredale, 1936 accepted, alternate representation
=Trochus (Heliacus) d'Orbigny, 1842
=Torinista Iredale, 1936
Synonymised Names:
=Gyriscus asteleformis Powell, 1965
=Gyriscus hayashii Shikama, 1970
=Heliacus (Gyriscus) asteleformis (Powell, 1965) accepted, alternate representation
Images: Heliacus asteleformis (Powell, 1965)
Holotype of Gyriscus asteleformis, collected pre 1965, in 91 metres, NW of Cape Maria van Diemen, Far North, NZ (MA71241). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
ARCHITECTONICIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> 'Lower Heterobranchia' (Infraclass)
> Architectonicoidea (Superfamily)
> Architectonicidae (Family)
> Heliacus (Genus)
> asteleformis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Gyriscus Tiberi, 1867 accepted, alternate representation
=Heliacus (Gyriscus) Tiberi, 1867
=Heliacus (Heliacus) d'Orbigny, 1842
=Heliacus (Torinista) Iredale, 1936 accepted, alternate representation
=Trochus (Heliacus) d'Orbigny, 1842
=Torinista Iredale, 1936
Synonymised Names:
=Gyriscus asteleformis Powell, 1965
=Gyriscus hayashii Shikama, 1970
=Heliacus (Gyriscus) asteleformis (Powell, 1965) accepted, alternate representation
Details: Heliacus asteleformis (Powell, 1965)
Size/Grows to:
Height 8mm, Width 7.5mm
Distribution:
Japan, and between Three Kings Islands and Cape Maria van Diemen, and off Poor Knights Islands, from 49-91m
Type Data:
  • 91 metres, NW of Cape Maria van Diemen, NZ, (holotype of Gyriscus asteleformis Powell, 1965)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.229)
  • Bieler, R. 1993 Architectonicidae of the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca, Gastropoda), Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF), 30 (p.273)
  • Bieler, R. 1988 Phylogenetic relationships in the gastropod family Architectonicidae, with notes on the family Mathildidae (Allogastropoda), Malacological Review (p.209)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.247)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1965 New Zealand Molluscan Systematics with Descriptions of New Species: Part 5, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 6(2) (p.161) Original Description

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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