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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MARGINELLIDAE: MARGINELLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Marginellidae (Family)
> Marginellinae (Subfamily)
> Dentimargo (Genus)
> fusulus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Marginella (Dentimargo) Cossmann, 1899
=Marginella (Volvarinella) Habe, 1951
=Volvarinella Habe, 1951
Synonymised Names:
=Marginella fusula Murdoch & Suter, 1906
=Volvarinella fusula (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Images: Dentimargo fusulus (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Holotype of Marginella fusula, collected 22 Jan 1904, E of Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf, NZ (M.001692). ~6.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MARGINELLIDAE: MARGINELLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Marginellidae (Family)
> Marginellinae (Subfamily)
> Dentimargo (Genus)
> fusulus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Marginella (Dentimargo) Cossmann, 1899
=Marginella (Volvarinella) Habe, 1951
=Volvarinella Habe, 1951
Synonymised Names:
=Marginella fusula Murdoch & Suter, 1906
=Volvarinella fusula (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Details: Dentimargo fusulus (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Size/Grows to:
Height 7mm, Width 3mm
Distribution:
Northland to Bay of Plenty. Off Poor Knights Islands
Geographical Range:
AE.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic
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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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