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Taxonomy
Family:
RUNCINIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Runcinida (Order)
> Runcinoidea (Superfamily)
> Runcinidae (Family)
> Runcina (Genus)
> katipoides (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Pelta Quatrefages, 1844
=Runnica Miller & Rudman, 1968
Synonymised Names:
=Runnica katipoides Miller & Rudman, 1968
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Taxonomy
Family:
RUNCINIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Runcinida (Order)
> Runcinoidea (Superfamily)
> Runcinidae (Family)
> Runcina (Genus)
> katipoides (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Pelta Quatrefages, 1844
=Runnica Miller & Rudman, 1968
Synonymised Names:
=Runnica katipoides Miller & Rudman, 1968
Details: Runcina katipoides (Miller & Rudman, 1968)
Size/Grows to:
Animal 6mm
Distribution:
Northern half of North Island
Geographical Range:
AC
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Living on Corallina officialis, in pools or exposed in the mid-littoral and sub-littoral fringe
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.57)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.274)
  • Miller, M.C., Rudman, W.B. 1968 Two new genera and species of the superfamily Runcinoidea (Mollusca Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia)., Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 10(17) (p.185) 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