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Taxonomy
Family:
TONNIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Tonnidae (Family)
> Malea (Genus)
> pomum (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Dolium (Malea) pomum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Images: Malea pomum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Washed up east coast, Northland, NZ. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family:
TONNIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Tonnidae (Family)
> Malea (Genus)
> pomum (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Dolium (Malea) pomum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Details: Malea pomum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Size/Grows to:
Height 70mm
Distribution:
Indo-West Pacific and western Atlantic. Kermadec Islands, with occasional occurrence in Far North, NZ, from 0-23m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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References and Publications
  • Vos, C. 2007 A Conchological Iconography 13, The family Tonnidae, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany (p.28)
  • 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.221)
  • Paul, W.J. Mar/1979 New Zealand Tonnidae, Cookia, 3(1) (p.21)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.163)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1976 On the considerable influx of warm water molluscs that have invaded northern New Zealand waters within recent years, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 13 (p.150)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1974 New Zealand Molluscan Systematics with Descriptions of New Species: Part 8, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 11 (p.204)

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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