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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
Geographical Range:
AC
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)

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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