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Taxonomy
Family:
APLUSTRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Acteonimorpha (Subterclass)
> Acteonoidea (Superfamily)
> Aplustridae (Family)
> Bullina (Genus)
> lineata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Bullinula G.B. Sowerby II, 1839
=Perbullina Iredale, 1929
Synonymised Names:
=Bulla lineata Gray, 1825
=Bullinula lineata G.B. Sowerby II, 1839
=Voluta scabra Gmelin, 1791 (non O. F. Müller, 1784)
=Voluta ziczac Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1816 (non Schröter, 1804)
Images: Bullina lineata (Gray, 1825)
Washed up on Bream Bay, Whangarei, Northland, NZ. 13mm
Parengarenga Harbour, Far North, NZ. 16mm
Taxonomy
Family:
APLUSTRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Acteonimorpha (Subterclass)
> Acteonoidea (Superfamily)
> Aplustridae (Family)
> Bullina (Genus)
> lineata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Bullinula G.B. Sowerby II, 1839
=Perbullina Iredale, 1929
Synonymised Names:
=Bulla lineata Gray, 1825
=Bullinula lineata G.B. Sowerby II, 1839
=Voluta scabra Gmelin, 1791 (non O. F. Müller, 1784)
=Voluta ziczac Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1816 (non Schröter, 1804)
Details: Bullina lineata (Gray, 1825)
Size/Grows to:
Height 23mm, Width 13mm
Distribution:
Throughout the tropical and subtropical Indo-West Pacific, Japan, Australia to Kermadec Islands and New Zealand. North Island, Northland to Bay of Plenty
Geographical Range:
KA
Notes:
Marine, Feeds on polychaete worms
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)
  • 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.230)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.269)
  • Gardner, N.W. Dec/1977 Bullina from northern New Zealand, Poirieria, 9(3) (p.46)
  • Rudman, W.B. 1971 The Genus Bullina (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda) in New Zealand, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 2(2) (p.195)

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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