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Taxonomy
Family:
CRESEIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Pteropoda (Order)
> Euthecosomata (Suborder)
> Cavolinioidea (Superfamily)
> Creseidae (Family)
> Creseis (Genus)
> acicula (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Cleodora (Creseis) Rang, 1828
Synonymised Names:
=Cleodora (Creseis) acicula Rang, 1828
=Cleodora (Creseis) clava Rang, 1828
=Cleodora acicula Rang, 1828
=Cleodora clava Rang, 1828
=Creseis acicula acicula (Rang, 1828)
=Creseis acus Eschscholtz, 1829
=Creseis clava (Rang, 1828)
=Creseis recta J.E. Gray, 1850
=Creseis spiniformis Benoit, 1843
=Dentalium ecostatum T.W. Kirk, 1880
Images: Creseis acicula (Rang, 1828)
Lectotype, collected Indian Ocean. Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Taxonomy
Family:
CRESEIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Pteropoda (Order)
> Euthecosomata (Suborder)
> Cavolinioidea (Superfamily)
> Creseidae (Family)
> Creseis (Genus)
> acicula (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Cleodora (Creseis) Rang, 1828
Synonymised Names:
=Cleodora (Creseis) acicula Rang, 1828
=Cleodora (Creseis) clava Rang, 1828
=Cleodora acicula Rang, 1828
=Cleodora clava Rang, 1828
=Creseis acicula acicula (Rang, 1828)
=Creseis acus Eschscholtz, 1829
=Creseis clava (Rang, 1828)
=Creseis recta J.E. Gray, 1850
=Creseis spiniformis Benoit, 1843
=Dentalium ecostatum T.W. Kirk, 1880
Details: Creseis acicula (Rang, 1828)
Geographical Range:
AC
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Gasca, R., Janssen, A.W. 2013 Taxonomic review, molecular data and key to the species of Creseidae from the Atlantic Ocean, Journal of Molluscan Studies, 80 (p.40)
  • Marshall, B.A. 1996 Molluscan name-bearing types in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 9 (p.32)
  • 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.777)

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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