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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)
> Styliola (Genus)
> subula (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cleodora (Creseis) spinifera Rang, 1828
=Cleodora recta Blainville, 1825
=Cleodora subula Quoy & Gaimard, 1827
=Cleodora subulata Quoy & Gaimard, 1832
=Creseis spinifera (Rang, 1828)
=Styliola rangiana Tate, 1887
=Styliola recta Gray, 1850
=Styliola sulcifera Gabb, 1873
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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)
> Styliola (Genus)
> subula (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cleodora (Creseis) spinifera Rang, 1828
=Cleodora recta Blainville, 1825
=Cleodora subula Quoy & Gaimard, 1827
=Cleodora subulata Quoy & Gaimard, 1832
=Creseis spinifera (Rang, 1828)
=Styliola rangiana Tate, 1887
=Styliola recta Gray, 1850
=Styliola sulcifera Gabb, 1873
Details: Styliola subula (Quoy & Gaimard, 1827)
Size/Grows to:
Height 9mm
Distribution:
Off Cape Brett, Northland. Worldwide in warm seas
Geographical Range:
ACFM
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • 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.763)

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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil