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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)
> conica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Cleodora (Creseis) Rang, 1828
Synonymised Names:
=Cleodora conoidea Costa, 1873
=Cleodora flexa Pfeffer, 1879
=Creseis conica conica Eschscholtz, 1829
=Creseis conica falciformis Rampal, 2002
=Creseis rotunda G.B. Sowerby II, 1877
=Creseis virgula conica Eschscholtz, 1829
=Styliola vitrea Verrill, 1872
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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)
> conica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Cleodora (Creseis) Rang, 1828
Synonymised Names:
=Cleodora conoidea Costa, 1873
=Cleodora flexa Pfeffer, 1879
=Creseis conica conica Eschscholtz, 1829
=Creseis conica falciformis Rampal, 2002
=Creseis rotunda G.B. Sowerby II, 1877
=Creseis virgula conica Eschscholtz, 1829
=Styliola vitrea Verrill, 1872
Details: Creseis conica Eschscholtz, 1829
Size/Grows to:
Length 10mm
Distribution:
Off northern New Zealand. Cosmopolitan, mostly warm seas
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.41)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.279)
  • 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.776)

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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