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Taxonomy
Family:
COMINELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Cominellidae (Family)
> Cominella (Genus)
> mirabilis canturiensis (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cominella (Eucominia) mirabilis canturiensis (Dell, 1951) accepted, alternate representation
=Cominella mirabilis nuptialis (Dell, 1953)
=Fax mirabilis canturiensis Dell, 1951
=Fax mirabilis nuptialis Dell, 1953
Images: Cominella mirabilis canturiensis (Dell, 1951)
Off Otago Peninsula, dredged 500 metres. 22mm
Type of Fax mirabilis nuptialis Dell, 1953, collected 4/11/1950, Chatham Rise, NZ (M.005670). ~13mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
COMINELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Cominellidae (Family)
> Cominella (Genus)
> mirabilis canturiensis (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cominella (Eucominia) mirabilis canturiensis (Dell, 1951) accepted, alternate representation
=Cominella mirabilis nuptialis (Dell, 1953)
=Fax mirabilis canturiensis Dell, 1951
=Fax mirabilis nuptialis Dell, 1953
Details: Cominella mirabilis canturiensis (Dell, 1951)
Size/Grows to:
Height 30mm, Width 14mm
Distribution:
South Island. Chatham Rise and off Banks Peninsula
Geographical Range:
CM
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Morley, M.S. Sep/1989 Cominella mirabilis canturiensis (Dell, 1951), Poirieria, 16(1) (p.9)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.195)
  • Dell, R.K. 1951 A Deep Water Molluscan Fauna from off Banks Peninsula, Records of the Canterbury Museum, 6(1) (p.56) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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