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Taxonomy
Family:
TURRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Turridae (Family)
> Xenuroturris (Genus)
> millepunctata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Clamturris Iredale, 1931
=Lophiotoma (Xenuroturris) Iredale, 1929
Synonymised Names:
=Lophiotoma (Xenuroturris) millepunctata (G.B. Sowerby III, 1908)
=Lophiotoma millepunctata (G.B. Sowerby III, 1908)
=Pleurotoma millepunctata G. B. Sowerby III, 1909
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Taxonomy
Family:
TURRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Turridae (Family)
> Xenuroturris (Genus)
> millepunctata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Clamturris Iredale, 1931
=Lophiotoma (Xenuroturris) Iredale, 1929
Synonymised Names:
=Lophiotoma (Xenuroturris) millepunctata (G.B. Sowerby III, 1908)
=Lophiotoma millepunctata (G.B. Sowerby III, 1908)
=Pleurotoma millepunctata G. B. Sowerby III, 1909
Details: Xenuroturris millepunctata (G.B. Sowerby III, 1909)
Size/Grows to:
Height 50mm
Distribution:
South Pacific, Japan, Taiwan and Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
K
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1964 The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific, Indopacific Mollusca, 1(5) (p.323)
  • Sowerby III, G.B. 1909 Descriptions of new species of Terebra, Pleurotoma, Trochus, Tellina, Dosina, and Modiola, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 8(4) (p.198) 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