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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CALLIOSTOMATIDAE: FAUTRICINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Calliostomatidae (Family)
> Fautricinae (Subfamily)
> Falsimargarita (Genus)
> callista (Species)
Images: Falsimargarita callista B.A. Marshall, 2016
Holotype, Bounty Plateau, southern NZ, 532 metres, (NIWA 95778). 13mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, Bounty Plateau, southern NZ, 532 metres, (NIWA 95778). 13mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, Bounty Plateau, southern NZ, 532 metres, (NIWA 95778). 13mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CALLIOSTOMATIDAE: FAUTRICINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Calliostomatidae (Family)
> Fautricinae (Subfamily)
> Falsimargarita (Genus)
> callista (Species)
Details: Falsimargarita callista B.A. Marshall, 2016
Size/Grows to:
Height 13mm, Width 12.1mm
Distribution:
Bounty Plateau, 532-726 metres
Geographical Range:
An
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 2016 New species of Venustatrochus Powell, 1951 from New Zealand, and new species of Falsimargarita Powell, 1951 and a new genus of the Calliostomatidae from the southwest Pacific, with comments on some other calliostomatid genera (Mollusca: Gastropoda), Molluscan Research, 36(2) (p.130) 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