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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)
> vitrea (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Bullinula G.B. Sowerby II, 1839
=Perbullina Iredale, 1929
Synonymised Names:
=Bullina roseana Rudman, 1971
=Perbullina errans Iredale, 1929
Images: Bullina vitrea Pease, 1860
Parengarenga Harbour, Far North, NZ. 12mm
Taxonomy
Family:
APLUSTRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Acteonimorpha (Subterclass)
> Acteonoidea (Superfamily)
> Aplustridae (Family)
> Bullina (Genus)
> vitrea (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Bullinula G.B. Sowerby II, 1839
=Perbullina Iredale, 1929
Synonymised Names:
=Bullina roseana Rudman, 1971
=Perbullina errans Iredale, 1929
Details: Bullina vitrea Pease, 1860
Size/Grows to:
Height 12.5mm, Width 8mm
Distribution:
North Island. Bay of Islands 15 metres. Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
KA
Notes:
Marine, Colour pattern where axial lines do not extend beyond the first red spiral. Pure white animal
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Poppe, G.T., Tagaro, S.P., Chino, M. 2011 Two new Rictaxiella (Gastropoda: Bullinidae) from the Philippines, Visaya, 3(3) (p.79)
  • 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.270)
  • Gardner, N.W. Dec/1977 Bullina from northern New Zealand, Poirieria, 9(3) (p.47)
  • Rudman, W.B. 1971 The Genus Bullina (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda) in New Zealand, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 2(2) (p.197)

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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