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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
VOLUTIDAE: VOLUTINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Volutidae (Family)
> Volutinae (Subfamily)
> Lyria (Genus)
> insignita (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Lyria (Lyria) insignita Iredale, 1940
=Lyria nucelus Brook & B. A. Marshall not Lamarck
Images: Lyria insignita Iredale, 1940
Collected in 1980's, off Kermadec Islands, NZ. 32mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
VOLUTIDAE: VOLUTINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Volutidae (Family)
> Volutinae (Subfamily)
> Lyria (Genus)
> insignita (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Lyria (Lyria) insignita Iredale, 1940
=Lyria nucelus Brook & B. A. Marshall not Lamarck
Details: Lyria insignita Iredale, 1940
Size/Grows to:
Height 34mm, Width 16mm
Distribution:
Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 0-30m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Bail, P., Limpus, A. 2005 A Conchological Iconography 11, The Recent Volutes of New Zealand, with a revision of the genus Alcithoe H. & A. Adams, 1853, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany (p.66)
  • 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)

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
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