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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
VOLUTIDAE: CYMBIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Volutidae (Family)
> Cymbiinae (Subfamily)
> Alcithoe (Genus)
> tigrina (Species)
Images: Alcithoe tigrina Bail & Limpus, 2005
Dredged in the Bay of Plenty, 400-600 metres. 113mm. © rights reserved
holotype of Alcithoe larochei tigrina, collected Nov 1987, SE of Mayor Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ (M.160708). ~115mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
VOLUTIDAE: CYMBIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Volutidae (Family)
> Cymbiinae (Subfamily)
> Alcithoe (Genus)
> tigrina (Species)
Details: Alcithoe tigrina Bail & Limpus, 2005
Size/Grows to:
Height 140mm, Width 64mm
Distribution:
Bay of Plenty to Mahia. Trawled around 100-600 metres
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Hills, S.F.K., Trewick, S.A., Morgan-Richards, M. 2011 Phylogenetic information of genes, illustrated with mitochondrial data from a genus of gastropod molluscs, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 104 (p.783)
  • Bail, P., Limpus, A. 2005 A Conchological Iconography 11, The Recent Volutes of New Zealand, with a revision of the genus Alcithoe H. & A. Adams, 1853, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany (p.45) Original Description

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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