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Taxonomy
Family:
PYRAMIDELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> 'Lower Heterobranchia' (Infraclass)
> Pyramidelloidea (Superfamily)
> Pyramidellidae (Family)
> Agatha (Genus)
> georgiana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Amathis A. Adams, 1861
=Pyramidella (Agatha) A. Adams, 1860
Synonymised Names:
=Odostomia bembix Suter, 1908
=Odostomia georgiana Hutton, 1885
=Odostomia marginata Murdoch & Suter, 1906
=Odostomia stygia Suter, 1913
Images: Agatha georgiana (Hutton, 1885)
Tutukaka, Whangarei. 11mm
Holotype of Odostomia stygia Suter, 1913, collected 22 Jan 1904, E of Great Barrier Island, NZ (M.001776). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected no other data, New Zealand. (M.001308). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
PYRAMIDELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> 'Lower Heterobranchia' (Infraclass)
> Pyramidelloidea (Superfamily)
> Pyramidellidae (Family)
> Agatha (Genus)
> georgiana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Amathis A. Adams, 1861
=Pyramidella (Agatha) A. Adams, 1860
Synonymised Names:
=Odostomia bembix Suter, 1908
=Odostomia georgiana Hutton, 1885
=Odostomia marginata Murdoch & Suter, 1906
=Odostomia stygia Suter, 1913
Details: Agatha georgiana (Hutton, 1885)
Size/Grows to:
Height 15mm, Width 6mm
Distribution:
Northland to Stewart Island and Chatham Islands. Shallow water to 110 metres
Geographical Range:
ACFMR.Fo.
Notes:
Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.265)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1885 Descriptions of new Tertiary shells. Part 1, Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 17 (p.319) 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
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