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Taxonomy
Family:
SKENEIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Skeneidae (Family)
> Parviturbo (Genus)
> eumorpha (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Crosseola cookiana Dell, 1952
=Cyclostrema eumorpha Suter, 1908
=Lodderia eumorpha (Suter, 1908)
=Lodderia eumorpha cookiana (Dell, 1952)
=Lodderia eumorpha eumorpha (Suter, 1908)
Images: Parviturbo eumorpha (Suter, 1908)
Holotype of Crosseola cookiana, collected 06 Nov 1936, Mernoo Bank, western Chatham Rise, NZ (M.005502). 1.2mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
SKENEIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Skeneidae (Family)
> Parviturbo (Genus)
> eumorpha (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Crosseola cookiana Dell, 1952
=Cyclostrema eumorpha Suter, 1908
=Lodderia eumorpha (Suter, 1908)
=Lodderia eumorpha cookiana (Dell, 1952)
=Lodderia eumorpha eumorpha (Suter, 1908)
Details: Parviturbo eumorpha (Suter, 1908)
Size/Grows to:
Width 1.7mm, Height 1.3mm
Distribution:
Southern South Island, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Bounty and Chatham Islands, Pukaki Rise and Mernoo Bank, from 6-415m
Type Data:
  • 95 metres, Mernoo Bank, W Chatham Rise, NZ, (holotype of Lodderia eumorpha cookiana Dell, 1952)
  • 91 metres, off Snares Islands, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Morley, M.S. Sep/1992 Lodderia eumorpha eumorpha, Poirieria, 16(4) (p.26)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.71)
  • Dell, R.K. 1952 New marine Mollusca from the Cook Strait area and southern New Zealand., Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 79(2) (p.415) Original Description
  • Suter, H. 1908 Additions to the marine molluscan fauna of New Zealand, with descriptions of new species, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 8 (p.25) 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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