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Taxonomy
Family:
THALASSOCYONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Thalassocyonidae (Family)
> Thalassocyon (Genus)
> tui (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Thalassocyon bonus Barnard, 1960
Images: Thalassocyon tui Dell, 1967
Trawled 980 metres, Challenger Plateau, NZ. © rights reserved
Trawled 980 metres, Challenger Plateau, NZ. © rights reserved
Holotype, collected 26 Jul 1962, Colville Ridge, W of Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, NZ (M.021299). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Trawled in 600 metres, North Chatham Rise, NZ. © rights reserved
Trawled in 600 metres, North Chatham Rise, NZ. © rights reserved
Trawled off Kaipara, North Island. 74mm
Taxonomy
Family:
THALASSOCYONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Thalassocyonidae (Family)
> Thalassocyon (Genus)
> tui (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Thalassocyon bonus Barnard, 1960
Details: Thalassocyon tui Dell, 1967
Size/Grows to:
Height 76mm, Width 47mm
Distribution:
Lord Howe Rise and New Zealand. Kermadec Ridge, West Norfolk Ridge, Challenger Plateau, North Island and Chatham Rise, from 898-3034m
Type Data:
  • 960-1005 metres, W of Kermadec Island, NZ, (holotype)
  • 2280-2400 metres, off western South Africa, (type of bonus Barnard, 1960)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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References and Publications
  • Warén, A., Bouchet, P. 1990 Laubierinidae and Pisanianurinae (Ranellidae), two new deep-sea taxa of the Tonnoidea (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia), The Veliger, 33(1) (p.87)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.163)
  • Aug/1969 Thalassocyon tui, Poirieria, 5(1)
  • Beu, A.G. 1969 The Gastropod genus Thalassocyon Bernard, 1960, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 3(3) (p.446)
  • Dell, R.K. 1967 Some Mollusca from deep water to the north of New Zealand, collected by the Tui, 1962, Records of the Dominion Museum, 5 (p.309) 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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