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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)
> Cuvierina (Genus)
> columnella (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Cuvieria Rang, 1827
=Cuvierina (Cuvierina) Boas, 1886
=Cuvierina (Urceolaria) A.W. Jannsen, 2005
=Cuvierina (Urceolarica) A.W. Janssen, 2006
=Herse Gistel, 1848
=Hyperia Gistel, 1848
=Rangistela Pruvot-Fol, 1948
=Tripteris Menke, 1830
Synonymised Names:
=Cleodora obtusa Quoy & Gaimard, 1832
=Creseis caliciformis Meisenheimer, 1905
=Cuvieria columnella Rang, 1827
=Cuvierina (Cuvierina) columnella (Rang, 1827)
=Cuvierina spoeli Rampal, 2002
=Herse columnella (Rang, 1827)
=Triptera rosea Quoy & Gaimard, 1825
Images: Cuvierina columnella (Rang, 1827)
Holotype of Cuvierina spoeli Rampal, 2002, collected 22 Aug 1982, off Reunion, Indian Ocean. 9.88mm. Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Taxonomy
Family:
CAVOLINIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Pteropoda (Order)
> Euthecosomata (Suborder)
> Cavolinioidea (Superfamily)
> Cavoliniidae (Family)
> Cuvierina (Genus)
> columnella (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Cuvieria Rang, 1827
=Cuvierina (Cuvierina) Boas, 1886
=Cuvierina (Urceolaria) A.W. Jannsen, 2005
=Cuvierina (Urceolarica) A.W. Janssen, 2006
=Herse Gistel, 1848
=Hyperia Gistel, 1848
=Rangistela Pruvot-Fol, 1948
=Tripteris Menke, 1830
Synonymised Names:
=Cleodora obtusa Quoy & Gaimard, 1832
=Creseis caliciformis Meisenheimer, 1905
=Cuvieria columnella Rang, 1827
=Cuvierina (Cuvierina) columnella (Rang, 1827)
=Cuvierina spoeli Rampal, 2002
=Herse columnella (Rang, 1827)
=Triptera rosea Quoy & Gaimard, 1825
Details: Cuvierina columnella (Rang, 1827)
Size/Grows to:
Length 12mm
Distribution:
Off Northland. World wide
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Janssen, A.W. 2005 Development of Cuvierinidae (Mollusca, Euthecosomata, Cavolinoidea) during the Cenozoic: a non-cladistic approach with a re-interpretation of Recent taxa, Basteria, 69 (p.45)
  • 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.779)

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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