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Taxonomy
Family:
VOLUTOMITRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Volutomitridae (Family)
> Peculator (Genus)
> hedleyi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Parvimitra Finlay, 1930
Synonymised Names:
=Mitra bicornis Laws, 1936
=Vulpecula (Pusia) hedleyi R. R. Murdoch, 1905
=Vulpecula hedleyi R. Murdoch, 1905
Images: Peculator hedleyi (R. Murdoch, 1905)
Dredged in the Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ. 8mm
Holotype of Vulpecula (Pusia) hedleyi, collected Whangarei Heads, NZ (M.001737). ~5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
VOLUTOMITRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Volutomitridae (Family)
> Peculator (Genus)
> hedleyi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Parvimitra Finlay, 1930
Synonymised Names:
=Mitra bicornis Laws, 1936
=Vulpecula (Pusia) hedleyi R. R. Murdoch, 1905
=Vulpecula hedleyi R. Murdoch, 1905
Details: Peculator hedleyi (R. Murdoch, 1905)
Size/Grows to:
Height 8mm, Width 4mm
Distribution:
Northland east coast, to Bay of Plenty
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.214)
  • Murdoch, R. 1905 Additions to the marine Mollusca of New Zealand., Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 37 (p.228) Original Description

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

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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