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Taxonomy
Family:
SCISSURELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Lepetelllida (Order)
> Scissurelloidea (Superfamily)
> Scissurellidae (Family)
> Sinezona (Genus)
> pacifica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ariella Bandel, 1998
=Daizona Bandel, 1998
Synonymised Names:
=Daizona pacifica Bandel, 1998
=Schismope pacifica W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
Images: Sinezona pacifica (W.R.B. Oliver, 1915)
Lord Howe Island, Australia. Australian Museum, Sydney (SEM Photos S. Lindsay)
Lord Howe Island, Australia. Australian Museum, Sydney (SEM Photos S. Lindsay)
Taxonomy
Family:
SCISSURELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Lepetelllida (Order)
> Scissurelloidea (Superfamily)
> Scissurellidae (Family)
> Sinezona (Genus)
> pacifica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ariella Bandel, 1998
=Daizona Bandel, 1998
Synonymised Names:
=Daizona pacifica Bandel, 1998
=Schismope pacifica W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
Details: Sinezona pacifica (W.R.B. Oliver, 1915)
Size/Grows to:
Width 1.0mm
Distribution:
Australia from northern NSW to south-western WA. Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, Lork Howe, and Norfolk Island. Macquarie Island
Geographical Range:
KAAn
Notes:
Marine, Known from beach specimens, under stones and and from algae washings intertidally, down to about 100 metres
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Geiger, D.L. 2012 Monograph of the Little Slit Shells 1, Introduction, Scissurellidae, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA (p.519)
  • Marshall, B.A. 2002 Some Recent Scissurellids from the New Zealand region and remarks on some Scissurellid genus group names (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Vetigastropoda), Molluscan Research, 22 (p.173)
  • 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.214)
  • Oliver, W.R.B. 1915 The Mollusca of the Kermadec Islands, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 47 (p.514) 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
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