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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)
Synonymised Names:
=Euchelus (Herpetopoma) foveolatus (A. Adams, 1851)
=Euchelus angulatus Pease, 1868
=Herpetopoma foveolatum (A. Adams, 1853)
=Monodonta foveolata A. Adams, 1853
=Vaceuchelus angulatus (Pease, 1868)
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)
Synonymised Names:
=Euchelus (Herpetopoma) foveolatus (A. Adams, 1851)
=Euchelus angulatus Pease, 1868
=Herpetopoma foveolatum (A. Adams, 1853)
=Monodonta foveolata A. Adams, 1853
=Vaceuchelus angulatus (Pease, 1868)
Details: Vaceuchelus foveolatus (A. Adams, 1853)
Size/Grows to:
Height 5.5mm, Width 5.3mm
Distribution:
Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
K
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

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