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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PYRAMIDELLIDAE: TURBONILLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> 'Lower Heterobranchia' (Infraclass)
> Pyramidelloidea (Superfamily)
> Pyramidellidae (Family)
> Turbonillinae (Subfamily)
> Turbonilla (Genus)
> zealandica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Chemnitzia d'Orbigny, 1840
=Odostomia (Turbonilla) Risso, 1826
=Turbonilla (Chemnitzia) d'Orbigny, 1839
Synonymised Names:
=Chemnitzia zealandica Hutton, 1873 (basionym)
=Chemnitzia zealandica axivarians Laws, 1937
Images: Turbonilla zealandica (Hutton, 1873)
Lectotype of Chemnitzia zealandica, collected NZ (M.000116). 5.7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected in shell sand, Kaikoura Peninsula, NZ. 5mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PYRAMIDELLIDAE: TURBONILLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> 'Lower Heterobranchia' (Infraclass)
> Pyramidelloidea (Superfamily)
> Pyramidellidae (Family)
> Turbonillinae (Subfamily)
> Turbonilla (Genus)
> zealandica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Chemnitzia d'Orbigny, 1840
=Odostomia (Turbonilla) Risso, 1826
=Turbonilla (Chemnitzia) d'Orbigny, 1839
Synonymised Names:
=Chemnitzia zealandica Hutton, 1873 (basionym)
=Chemnitzia zealandica axivarians Laws, 1937
Details: Turbonilla zealandica (Hutton, 1873)
Size/Grows to:
Height 5.8mm, Width 1.5mm
Distribution:
Cook Strait to Stewart Island
Geographical Range:
CFAn
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.258)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1873 Catalogue of the Marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species, Dominion Museum (NZ) (p.22) 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
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