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Taxonomy
Family:
LOTTIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Patellogastropoda (Subclass)
> Lottioidea (Superfamily)
> Lottiidae (Family)
> Atalacmea (Genus)
> multilinea (Species)
Images: Atalacmea multilinea Powell, 1934
Collected 13 Aug 2006, Katiki Beach, S of Oamaru, NZ (M.184182). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected Jan 1928, S of Oamaru, NZ (MA70051). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype, collected Jan 1928, S of Oamaru, NZ (MA70051). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
LOTTIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Patellogastropoda (Subclass)
> Lottioidea (Superfamily)
> Lottiidae (Family)
> Atalacmea (Genus)
> multilinea (Species)
Details: Atalacmea multilinea Powell, 1934
Size/Grows to:
Length 11mm, Width 7mm, Height 1.75mm
Distribution:
Southern South Island and Stewart Island, from 0m
Type Data:
  • Katiki Beach, S of Oamaru, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Living intertidally
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References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.49)
  • Jun/1967 Atalacmea multilinea, Poirieria, 4(1)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1934 Gastropods new to the New Zealand Fauna; with descriptions of six new Species and a new Subspecies, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 64 (p.154) Original Description

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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