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Taxonomy
Family:
TRIMUSCULIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Ellobiida (Order)
> Ellobioidea (Superfamily)
> Trimusculidae (Family)
> Trimusculus (Genus)
> conicus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Clypeus Scacchi, 1833
=Gadinalea Iredale, 1940
=Gadinia Gray, 1824
=Mouretia G.B. Sowerby I, 1835
=Rowellia Carpenter, 1864
Synonymised Names:
=Amalthea hexagona Suter, 1906
=Gadinia angasi Dall, 1870
=Gadinia conica Angas, 1867
=Gadinia nivea Hutton, 1878
=Trimusculus niveus (Hutton, 1878)
Images: Trimusculus conicus (Angas, 1867)
At half tide under overhanging rocks, Bluff, Southland, NZ. 22mm. © rights reserved
In shallow cave at low tide, Far North, NZ. 15mm. © rights reserved
In shallow cave at low tide, Far North, NZ. 15mm. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family:
TRIMUSCULIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Ellobiida (Order)
> Ellobioidea (Superfamily)
> Trimusculidae (Family)
> Trimusculus (Genus)
> conicus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Clypeus Scacchi, 1833
=Gadinalea Iredale, 1940
=Gadinia Gray, 1824
=Mouretia G.B. Sowerby I, 1835
=Rowellia Carpenter, 1864
Synonymised Names:
=Amalthea hexagona Suter, 1906
=Gadinia angasi Dall, 1870
=Gadinia conica Angas, 1867
=Gadinia nivea Hutton, 1878
=Trimusculus niveus (Hutton, 1878)
Details: Trimusculus conicus (Angas, 1867)
Size/Grows to:
Length 29mm, Width 23mm, Height 15mm
Distribution:
Southern Australia and New Zealand. Three Kings, North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • 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.232)
  • Walsby, J.R., Morton, J.E. 1982 Chitons, Limpets & Topshells & Pulmonates (Amphineura, Archaeogastropoda & Pulmonata), Marine Molluscs, University of Auckland, Leigh Marine Laboratory, 1 (p.82)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.291)
  • Angas, G.F. 1867 Descriptions of thirty-two species of marine shells from the coast of New South Wales, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (p.115) Original Description

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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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