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Taxonomy
Family:
PYRAMIDELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> 'Lower Heterobranchia' (Infraclass)
> Pyramidelloidea (Superfamily)
> Pyramidellidae (Family)
> Striodostomia (Genus)
> orewa (Species)
Images: Striodostomia orewa Laws, 1940
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Taxonomy
Family:
PYRAMIDELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> 'Lower Heterobranchia' (Infraclass)
> Pyramidelloidea (Superfamily)
> Pyramidellidae (Family)
> Striodostomia (Genus)
> orewa (Species)
Details: Striodostomia orewa Laws, 1940
Size/Grows to:
Height 1.5mm, Width 0.65mm
Distribution:
North-eastern North Island, from 0m
Type Data:
  • Orewa Beach, N of Auckland, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.266)
  • Laws, C.R. 1940 Review of the Tertiary and Recent Neozelanic Pyramidellid Molluscs. No.7 - Further Odostomid Genera, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 70 (p.156) 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