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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)
> squamosissima (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Galeropsis Hupé, 1860
=Liniaxis Laseron, 1955
=Quoyula Iredale, 1912
Synonymised Names:
=Coralliophila (Pseudomurex) squamosissima (E.A. Smith, 1876)
=Coralliophila stearnsii Pilsbry, 1895
=Neothais clathrata Willan not A. Adams
=Rhizochilus (Coralliophila) squamosissimus E.A. Smith, 1876
=Rhizochilus squamosissimus E.A. Smith, 1876
=Coralliophila sertata Brook & Marshall not Hedley
Images: Coralliophila squamosissima (E.A. Smith, 1876)
Alive at mid tide among sea-anemones, Far North, NZ. 19mm
Washed up in the Far North, NZ
Hermit crab found in a rock pool at low tide, Far North, NZ. 22mm
Hermit crab found in a rock pool at low tide, Far North, NZ. 22mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: CORALLIOPHILINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Coralliophilinae (Subfamily)
> Coralliophila (Genus)
> squamosissima (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Galeropsis Hupé, 1860
=Liniaxis Laseron, 1955
=Quoyula Iredale, 1912
Synonymised Names:
=Coralliophila (Pseudomurex) squamosissima (E.A. Smith, 1876)
=Coralliophila stearnsii Pilsbry, 1895
=Neothais clathrata Willan not A. Adams
=Rhizochilus (Coralliophila) squamosissimus E.A. Smith, 1876
=Rhizochilus squamosissimus E.A. Smith, 1876
=Coralliophila sertata Brook & Marshall not Hedley
Details: Coralliophila squamosissima (E.A. Smith, 1876)
Size/Grows to:
Height 30mm, Width 21mm
Distribution:
South Africa, Indo-West Pacific, Australia, Kermadec Islands and Northland east coast
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.163)
  • Oliverio, M. 2008 Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. In Héros, V., Cowie, R.H. & Bouchet, P. (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25, Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 196 (p.481)
  • Willan, R.C. May/1998 An authentic record of Neothais clathrata in New Zealand, Poirieria, 22 (p.1)
  • 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)
  • Smith, E.A. 1876 Diagnoses of new species of Mollusca and Echinodermata from the Island of Rodriguez, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 4(17) (p.404) Original Description

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