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Taxonomy
Family:
ACTEONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Acteonimorpha (Subterclass)
> Acteonoidea (Superfamily)
> Acteonidae (Family)
> Pupa (Genus)
> affinis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Buccinulus H. & A. Adams, 1854
=Pupa (Pupa) Röding, 1798
Synonymised Names:
=Buccinulus kirki Hutton, 1873
=Pupa (Pupa) affinis (A. Adams, 1855)
=Pupa kirki (Hutton, 1873)
=Solidula affinis (A. Adams, 1855)
Images: Pupa affinis (A. Adams, 1855)
Dredged in Whangarei Harbour. 19mm
Holotype of Buccinulus kirki Hutton, collected Wellington area, NZ (M.000050). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
ACTEONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Acteonimorpha (Subterclass)
> Acteonoidea (Superfamily)
> Acteonidae (Family)
> Pupa (Genus)
> affinis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Buccinulus H. & A. Adams, 1854
=Pupa (Pupa) Röding, 1798
Synonymised Names:
=Buccinulus kirki Hutton, 1873
=Pupa (Pupa) affinis (A. Adams, 1855)
=Pupa kirki (Hutton, 1873)
=Solidula affinis (A. Adams, 1855)
Details: Pupa affinis (A. Adams, 1855)
Size/Grows to:
Height 19mm, Width 7.5mm
Distribution:
Northland to Cook Strait. Shallow to 200 metres
Geographical Range:
AC
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Morley, M.S., Hayward, B.W. 2015 Intertidal records of 'sea slugs' (nudibranchs and allied opisthobranch gastropods) from northern North Island, New Zealand, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 50 (p.53)
  • Gardner, N.W. Aug/1979 Acteonidae in New Zealand - Species of the Genera Pupa and Acteon, Poirieria, 10(3) (p.37)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.269)
  • Rudman, W.B. 1971 The Family Acteonidae (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda) In New Zealand, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 2(2) (p.206)
  • Adams, A. 1855 Monographs of Actaeon and Solidula, two genera or Gasteropodous Mollusca with Descriptions of several New Species from the Cumingian Collection, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 22(1) (p.61) 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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