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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)
> ovum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Amphiperas Herrmannsen, 1846
=Ovulum G.B. Sowerby I, 1828
=Parlicium Schilder, 1939
Synonymised Names:
=Bulla ovum Linnaeus, 1758
=Ovula pygmaea G.B. Sowerby I, 1828
=Ovulum ovum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Images: Ovula ovum Linnaeus, 1758
Collected in 24 metres, off North Meyer Island, Kermadec Islands, NZ (MA94515). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
OVULIDAE: OVULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Cypraeoidea (Superfamily)
> Ovulidae (Family)
> Ovulinae (Subfamily)
> Ovula (Genus)
> ovum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Amphiperas Herrmannsen, 1846
=Ovulum G.B. Sowerby I, 1828
=Parlicium Schilder, 1939
Synonymised Names:
=Bulla ovum Linnaeus, 1758
=Ovula pygmaea G.B. Sowerby I, 1828
=Ovulum ovum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Details: Ovula ovum Linnaeus, 1758
Size/Grows to:
Length 120mm
Distribution:
Red Sea to Indo-Pacific, Kermadec Islands
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Distribution Map
 
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.220)

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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