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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: CORALLIOPHILINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Coralliophilinae (Subfamily)
> Coralliophila (Genus)
> monodonta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Galeropsis Hupé, 1860
=Liniaxis Laseron, 1955
=Quoyula Iredale, 1912
Synonymised Names:
=Coralliophila madreporarum (G.B. Sowerby I, 1834)
=Galeropsis monodontus (Blainville, 1832)
=Purpura madreporarum G.B. Sowerby I, 1834
=Purpura monodonta Blainville, 1832
=Purpura monodonta Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
=Quoyula madreporarum (G.B. Sowerby I, 1832)
=Quoyula monodonta (Blainville, 1832)
=Rhizochilus madreporarum (G.B. Sowerby I, 1834)
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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: CORALLIOPHILINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Coralliophilinae (Subfamily)
> Coralliophila (Genus)
> monodonta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Galeropsis Hupé, 1860
=Liniaxis Laseron, 1955
=Quoyula Iredale, 1912
Synonymised Names:
=Coralliophila madreporarum (G.B. Sowerby I, 1834)
=Galeropsis monodontus (Blainville, 1832)
=Purpura madreporarum G.B. Sowerby I, 1834
=Purpura monodonta Blainville, 1832
=Purpura monodonta Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
=Quoyula madreporarum (G.B. Sowerby I, 1832)
=Quoyula monodonta (Blainville, 1832)
=Rhizochilus madreporarum (G.B. Sowerby I, 1834)
Details: Coralliophila monodonta (Blainville, 1832)
Size/Grows to:
Height 30mm
Distribution:
Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
K
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Oliverio, M. 2009 The Recent Coralliophilinae of the New Zealand region, with descriptions of two new species (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Muricidae), Molluscan Research, 29(3) (p.160)
  • Oliverio, M. 2008 Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. In Héros, V., Cowie, R.H. & Bouchet, P. (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25, Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 196 (p.507)
  • 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.225)
  • Kosuge, S., Suzuki, M. 1985 Illustrated catalogue of Latiaxis and its related groups. Family Coralliophilidae, Institute of Malacology, Tokyo (p.35)
  • Rehder, H.A. 1980 The marine mollusks of Easter Island (Isla de Pascua) and Sala y Gómez, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 289 (p.75)

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Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing 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