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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: RAPANINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Rapaninae (Subfamily)
> Neothais (Genus)
> smithi (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Purpura bollonsi Suter, 1906
=Purpura smithi Brazier, 1889
=Purpura striata bollonsi Suter, 1906
Images: Neothais smithi (Brazier, 1889)
From Spirits Bay, Far North, NZ. 20mm
Off Northland east coast, 15 metres. 26mm
Collected Nov 1970, Macauley Island, Kermadec Islands, NZ (M.242666). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Boat Landing, Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, NZ. 17mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: RAPANINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Rapaninae (Subfamily)
> Neothais (Genus)
> smithi (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Purpura bollonsi Suter, 1906
=Purpura smithi Brazier, 1889
=Purpura striata bollonsi Suter, 1906
Details: Neothais smithi (Brazier, 1889)
Size/Grows to:
Height 34mm, Width 22mm
Distribution:
Northland east coast to Mayor Island, Bay of Plenty. Also Lord Howe, Norfolk and Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
KA
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.225)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.181)
  • Brazier, J. 1889 The general zoology of Lord Howe Island; containing also an account of the collections made by the Australian Museum Collecting Party, Aug.–Sept., 1887, Memoirs of the Australian Museum, 2 (p.28) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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