Search
Taxonomy
Family:
UMBRACULIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Umbraculida (Order)
> Umbraculoidea (Superfamily)
> Umbraculidae (Family)
> Umbraculum (Genus)
> umbraculum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Gastroplax Blainville, 1819
=Umbrella Lamarck, 1819
Synonymised Names:
=Patella sinica Gmelin, 1791
=Patella umbraculum Lightfoot, 1786
=Umbraculum botanicum Hedley, 1923
=Umbraculum sinicum (Gmelin, 1791)
Images: Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786)
In a rock pool, with eggs, Northland, NZ. 60mm. © rights reserved
Found from low water down to scuba diving depths. These two were seen intertidally in a rock pool near Matai Bay, Northland, NZ. © rights reserved
Karikari Peninsula, Northland, NZ. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family:
UMBRACULIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Umbraculida (Order)
> Umbraculoidea (Superfamily)
> Umbraculidae (Family)
> Umbraculum (Genus)
> umbraculum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Gastroplax Blainville, 1819
=Umbrella Lamarck, 1819
Synonymised Names:
=Patella sinica Gmelin, 1791
=Patella umbraculum Lightfoot, 1786
=Umbraculum botanicum Hedley, 1923
=Umbraculum sinicum (Gmelin, 1791)
Details: Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786)
Size/Grows to:
Length 100mm, Width 80mm
Distribution:
Indo-Pacific, Atlantic and Mediterranean. Wanganella Bank, Kermadec Islands, Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 0-252m
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Morley, M.S., Hayward, B.W. 2015 Intertidal records of 'sea slugs' (nudibranchs and allied opisthobranch gastropods) from northern North Island, New Zealand, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 50 (p.77)
  • Morley, M.S., Hayward, B.W., Raven, J.L., Foreman, G.A., Grenfell, H.R. 2006 Intertidal and shallow subtidal biota of Mahia Peninsula, Hawkes Bay, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 43 (p.35)
  • Willan, R.C., Burn, R. 2003 On the publication date, authorship, and type species of Umbraculum and Tylodina (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Tylodinoidea): A rejoinder, The Nautilus, 117(1) (p.25)
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.231)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.283)

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
Recently Viewed