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Taxonomy
Family:
CHILODONTAIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Seguenziida (Order)
> Seguenzioidea (Superfamily)
> Chilodontaidae (Family)
> Vaceuchelus (Genus)
> foveolatus (Species)
Images: Vaceuchelus foveolatus (A. Adams, 1853)
Lectotype, collected Anaa Island, Tuamotu Archipelago, Pacific Ocean. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
Lectotype, collected Anaa Island, Tuamotu Archipelago, Pacific Ocean. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
Taxonomy
Family:
CHILODONTAIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Seguenziida (Order)
> Seguenzioidea (Superfamily)
> Chilodontaidae (Family)
> Vaceuchelus (Genus)
> foveolatus (Species)
Details: Vaceuchelus foveolatus (A. Adams, 1853)
Size/Grows to:
Height 5.5mm, Width 5.3mm
Distribution:
Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Herbert, D.G. 2012 A revision of the Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of Southern Africa and the South-Western Indian Ocean, African Invertebrates, 53 (p.447)
  • 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)
  • Adams, A. 1853 Contributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae, a family of gasteropodous Mollusca, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 19 (p.176) Original Description

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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