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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
POLYCERIDAE: POLYCERINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Ringipleura (Subterclass)
> Nudipleura (Superorder)
> Nudibranchia (Order)
> Doridina (Suborder)
> Doridoidei (Infraorder)
> Polyceroidea (Superfamily)
> Polyceridae (Family)
> Polycerinae (Subfamily)
> Polycera (Genus)
> maddoxi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Galacera Risso-Dominguez, 1960
=Polyceras Locard, 1886
Images: Polycera maddoxi M.C. Miller, 2005
Holotype, collected 5 August 1997, jetty piling on breakwater, Port Taranaki, New Plymouth, NZ (M.174781). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
POLYCERIDAE: POLYCERINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Ringipleura (Subterclass)
> Nudipleura (Superorder)
> Nudibranchia (Order)
> Doridina (Suborder)
> Doridoidei (Infraorder)
> Polyceroidea (Superfamily)
> Polyceridae (Family)
> Polycerinae (Subfamily)
> Polycera (Genus)
> maddoxi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Galacera Risso-Dominguez, 1960
=Polyceras Locard, 1886
Details: Polycera maddoxi M.C. Miller, 2005
Distribution:
Port Taranaki, New Plymouth and Dusky Sound, Fiordland
Geographical Range:
CF
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Miller, M.C. 1996 A new species of the dorid nudibranch genus Polycera Cuvier, 1817 (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) from New Zealand, Journal of Molluscan Studies, 62 (p.445)

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
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