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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:
Worldwide in tropical and temperate seas. Raoul Island, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga and north-eastern North Island, from 80-805m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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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)

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