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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: CORALLIOPHILINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Coralliophilinae (Subfamily)
> Coralliophila (Genus)
> bulbiformis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Galeropsis Hupé, 1860
=Liniaxis Laseron, 1955
=Quoyula Iredale, 1912
Synonymised Names:
=Coralliophila cantrainei (Montrouzier, 1861)
=Purpura bulbiformis Conrad, 1837
=Purpura cantrainei Montrouzier, 1861
=Purpura gibbosa Reeve, 1846
Images: Coralliophila bulbiformis (Conrad, 1837)
The first Corallophilidae record from New Zealand. Hermit crab, off Poor Knights Islands, Northland, NZ. 16.5mm
The first Corallophilidae record from New Zealand. Hermit crab, off Poor Knights Islands, Northland, NZ. 16.5mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: CORALLIOPHILINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Coralliophilinae (Subfamily)
> Coralliophila (Genus)
> bulbiformis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Galeropsis Hupé, 1860
=Liniaxis Laseron, 1955
=Quoyula Iredale, 1912
Synonymised Names:
=Coralliophila cantrainei (Montrouzier, 1861)
=Purpura bulbiformis Conrad, 1837
=Purpura cantrainei Montrouzier, 1861
=Purpura gibbosa Reeve, 1846
Details: Coralliophila bulbiformis (Conrad, 1837)
Size/Grows to:
Height 26mm, Width 19mm
Distribution:
Kermadec Islands. Off Poor Knights Islands, Northland
Geographical Range:
KA
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Oliverio, M. 2009 The Recent Coralliophilinae of the New Zealand region, with descriptions of two new species (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Muricidae), Molluscan Research, 29(3) (p.159)
  • 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.224)

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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