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Taxonomy
Family:
TROCHACLIDIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Seguenziida (Order)
> Seguenzioidea (Superfamily)
> Trochaclididae (Family)
> Acremodontina (Genus)
> simplex (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cirsonella simplex Powell, 1937
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Taxonomy
Family:
TROCHACLIDIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Seguenziida (Order)
> Seguenzioidea (Superfamily)
> Trochaclididae (Family)
> Acremodontina (Genus)
> simplex (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cirsonella simplex Powell, 1937
Details: Acremodontina simplex (Powell, 1937)
Size/Grows to:
Width 1.75mm, Height 1.4mm
Distribution:
Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Great Exhibition Bay, from 37-805m
Type Data:
  • 260 metres, off Three Kings Islands, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 1995 Recent and Tertiary Trochaclididae from the southwest Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochoidae), The Veliger, 38(2) (p.110)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.71)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1937 New Species of Marine Mollusca from New Zealand, Discovery Reports, 15 (p.185) 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