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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
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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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