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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:
Western Pacific. Kermadec Islands, from 5-30m
Type Data:
  • Lord Hood's Island (Marutea Atoll), South Pacific Ocean, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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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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