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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MITRIDAE: IMBRICARIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Mitroidea (Superfamily)
> Mitridae (Family)
> Imbricariinae (Subfamily)
> Neocancilla (Genus)
> takiisaoi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Mitra (Neocancilla) Cernohorsky, 1970
Synonymised Names:
=Mitra (Scabricola) takiisaoi Kuroda, 1959
=Mitra takiisaoi Kuroda, 1959
Images: Neocancilla takiisaoi (Kuroda, 1959)
Off Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands. 45.6mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MITRIDAE: IMBRICARIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Mitroidea (Superfamily)
> Mitridae (Family)
> Imbricariinae (Subfamily)
> Neocancilla (Genus)
> takiisaoi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Mitra (Neocancilla) Cernohorsky, 1970
Synonymised Names:
=Mitra (Scabricola) takiisaoi Kuroda, 1959
=Mitra takiisaoi Kuroda, 1959
Details: Neocancilla takiisaoi (Kuroda, 1959)
Size/Grows to:
Height 49mm
Distribution:
From Japan to Taiwan, New Caledonia, off Lord Howe Island, and Raoul Island, 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)
  • Kuroda, T. 1959 Descriptions of new species of marine shells from Japan, Venus, 20(4) (p.326) Original Description

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
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