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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily: OVULIDAE: OVULINAE Full Classification: 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: 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
Geographical Range:
K
Notes:
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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.220)
Key to 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
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