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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)
> inflexa (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Archonta Montfort, 1810
=Cavolina Abildgaard, 1791
=Cavolinia (Orbignyia) A. Adams, 1859
=Hyalaea Lamarck, 1799
=Orbignyia A. Adams, 1859
=Pleuropus Eschscholtz, 1825
Images: Cavolinia inflexa (Lesueur, 1813)
Collected July 2005, Spain. 5mm. Natural History Museum Rotterdam (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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)
> inflexa (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Archonta Montfort, 1810
=Cavolina Abildgaard, 1791
=Cavolinia (Orbignyia) A. Adams, 1859
=Hyalaea Lamarck, 1799
=Orbignyia A. Adams, 1859
=Pleuropus Eschscholtz, 1825
Details: Cavolinia inflexa (Lesueur, 1813)
Size/Grows to:
Height 7mm, Width 4.1mm
Distribution:
Off Three Kings Islands. Most warm seas
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)

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NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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