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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
OVULIDAE: OVULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Cypraeoidea (Superfamily)
> Ovulidae (Family)
> Ovulinae (Subfamily)
> Ovula (Genus)
> costellata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Amphiperas Herrmannsen, 1846
=Ovulum G. B. Sowerby I, 1828
=Parlicium Schilder, 1939
Synonymised Names:
=Bulla imperialis Solander, 1786
=Ovula angulosa Lamarck, 1822
=Ovula columba Schubert & J. A. Wagner, 1829
=Ovula tortilis Deshayes, 1844
Images: Ovula costellata Lamarck, 1810
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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
OVULIDAE: OVULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Cypraeoidea (Superfamily)
> Ovulidae (Family)
> Ovulinae (Subfamily)
> Ovula (Genus)
> costellata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Amphiperas Herrmannsen, 1846
=Ovulum G. B. Sowerby I, 1828
=Parlicium Schilder, 1939
Synonymised Names:
=Bulla imperialis Solander, 1786
=Ovula angulosa Lamarck, 1822
=Ovula columba Schubert & J. A. Wagner, 1829
=Ovula tortilis Deshayes, 1844
Details: Ovula costellata Lamarck, 1810
Size/Grows to:
Height 50mm
Distribution:
East Africa to Western Pacific, Kermadec Islands, from 15-25m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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References and Publications
  • 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)

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