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Taxonomy
Family:
GRANULINIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Granulinidae (Family)
> Pugnus (Genus)
> parvus (Species)
Images: Pugnus parvus Hedley, 1896
Collected in 1950 from shell grit, Narrabeen, New South Wales, Australia. (NMR 76710). 1.5mm. Natural History Museum Rotterdam (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Taxonomy
Family:
GRANULINIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Volutoidea (Superfamily)
> Granulinidae (Family)
> Pugnus (Genus)
> parvus (Species)
Details: Pugnus parvus Hedley, 1896
Size/Grows to:
Height 2mm
Distribution:
Queensland to East Tasmania, Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
K
Notes:
Marine, Readily distinguished by its parallel-sided shape and spiral sculpture
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.227)
  • Hedley, C. 1896 Description of Pugnus, a new genus of Ringiculidae, from Sydney Harbour, Records of the Australian Museum, 2(7) (p.105) 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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