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Taxonomy
Family:
XENOPHORIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Xenophoroidea (Superfamily)
> Xenophoridae (Family)
> Xenophora (Genus)
> neozelanica kermadecensis (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Phorus corrugatus sensu Iredale, 1910 not Reeve, 1842
=Xenophora (Xenophora) neozelanica kermadecensis Ponder, 1983
Images: Xenophora neozelanica kermadecensis Ponder, 1983
Holotype, collected 24 Aug 1972, off Hutchison Bluff, Raoul Island, NZ (M.234189). 60mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 24 Aug 1972, off Hutchison Bluff, Raoul Island, NZ (M.234189). 60mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
XENOPHORIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Xenophoroidea (Superfamily)
> Xenophoridae (Family)
> Xenophora (Genus)
> neozelanica kermadecensis (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Phorus corrugatus sensu Iredale, 1910 not Reeve, 1842
=Xenophora (Xenophora) neozelanica kermadecensis Ponder, 1983
Details: Xenophora neozelanica kermadecensis Ponder, 1983
Size/Grows to:
Width 70mm, Height 35mm
Distribution:
Off Kermadec Islands, dredged around 100 metres
Geographical Range:
K
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Enderby, T., Enderby, J. Oct/2006 The Original Shell Collector - The Carrier Shell, Poirieria, 32 (p.34)
  • 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.219)
  • Ponder, W.F. 1983 A Revision of Xenophoridae of the World and of the Australian Fossil Species (Mollusca: Gastropoda), Australian Museum Memoir, 17 (p.34) 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