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Taxonomy
Family:
ERATOIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Cypraeoidea (Superfamily)
> Eratoidae (Family)
> Lachryma (Genus)
> lachryma (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Erato denticulata Pritchard & Gatliff, 1900
=Erato lachryma Gray, 1832
=Proterato denticulata (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1900)
=Proterato lachryma (Gray, 1832)
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Taxonomy
Family:
ERATOIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Cypraeoidea (Superfamily)
> Eratoidae (Family)
> Lachryma (Genus)
> lachryma (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Erato denticulata Pritchard & Gatliff, 1900
=Erato lachryma Gray, 1832
=Proterato denticulata (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1900)
=Proterato lachryma (Gray, 1832)
Details: Lachryma lachryma (Gray, 1832)
Size/Grows to:
Height 7mm
Distribution:
Eastern Australia, Torres Strait, Queensland to south-western WA, and the Kermadec Islands, from 10-82m
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.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