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Taxonomy
Family:
CAVOLINIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Pteropoda (Order)
> Euthecosomata (Suborder)
> Cavolinioidea (Superfamily)
> Cavoliniidae (Family)
> Cavolinia (Genus)
> gibbosa (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Archonta Montfort, 1810
=Cavolina Abildgaard, 1791
=Cavolinia (Orbignyia) A. Adams, 1859
=Hyalaea Lamarck, 1799
=Orbignyia A. Adams, 1859
=Pleuropus Eschscholtz, 1825
Synonymised Names:
=Cavolinia plana Meisenheimer, 1905
=Hyalaea gibbosa d'Orbigny, 1835
Images: Cavolinia gibbosa (d'Orbigny, 1835)
Lectotype, collected Atlantic Ocean. Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Taxonomy
Family:
CAVOLINIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Pteropoda (Order)
> Euthecosomata (Suborder)
> Cavolinioidea (Superfamily)
> Cavoliniidae (Family)
> Cavolinia (Genus)
> gibbosa (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Archonta Montfort, 1810
=Cavolina Abildgaard, 1791
=Cavolinia (Orbignyia) A. Adams, 1859
=Hyalaea Lamarck, 1799
=Orbignyia A. Adams, 1859
=Pleuropus Eschscholtz, 1825
Synonymised Names:
=Cavolinia plana Meisenheimer, 1905
=Hyalaea gibbosa d'Orbigny, 1835
Details: Cavolinia gibbosa (d'Orbigny, 1835)
Distribution:
Off north end of New Zealand. Most warm seas
Geographical Range:
AC
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.278)
  • Bé, A.W.H., Gilmer, R.W. 1977 A zoogeographic and taxonomic review of Euthecosomatous Pteropoda. In A.T.S. Ramsay (ed.), Oceanic Micropaleontology, Academic Press, London, 1 (p.768)

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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