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Taxonomy
Family:
COSTELLARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Costellariidae (Family)
> Vexillum (Genus)
> angustissimum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Costellaria Swainson, 1840
=Mitra (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840
=Vexillum (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840
Synonymised Names:
=Mitra angustissima E.A. Smith, 1903
=Vexillum (Costellaria) angustissimum (E.A. Smith, 1903)
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Taxonomy
Family:
COSTELLARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Turbinelloidea (Superfamily)
> Costellariidae (Family)
> Vexillum (Genus)
> angustissimum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Costellaria Swainson, 1840
=Mitra (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840
=Vexillum (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840
Synonymised Names:
=Mitra angustissima E.A. Smith, 1903
=Vexillum (Costellaria) angustissimum (E.A. Smith, 1903)
Details: Vexillum angustissimum (E.A. Smith, 1903)
Size/Grows to:
Height 20mm
Distribution:
From the Red Sea to the Tonga Islands. Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
K
Notes:
Marine
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.226)
  • Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978 New records of neogastropod Mollusca from the Kermadec Islands, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 15 (p.64)

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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