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Taxonomy
Family:
CYMATIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Cymatiidae (Family)
> Cymatona (Genus)
> kampyla (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cymatium jobbernsi L.C. King, 1933
=Cymatona tomlini Powell, 1955
=Lampusia nodocostata Tate & May, 1901
=Nassaria kampyla R.B. Watson, 1883
=Sassia jobbernsi (L.C. King, 1933)
=Sassia kampyla (R.B. Watson, 1883)
=Sassia kampyla kampyla (R.B. Watson, 1883)
Images: Cymatona kampyla (R.B. Watson, 1883)
Trawled off Bounty Islands, NZ. 53mm. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family:
CYMATIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Cymatiidae (Family)
> Cymatona (Genus)
> kampyla (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cymatium jobbernsi L.C. King, 1933
=Cymatona tomlini Powell, 1955
=Lampusia nodocostata Tate & May, 1901
=Nassaria kampyla R.B. Watson, 1883
=Sassia jobbernsi (L.C. King, 1933)
=Sassia kampyla (R.B. Watson, 1883)
=Sassia kampyla kampyla (R.B. Watson, 1883)
Details: Cymatona kampyla (R.B. Watson, 1883)
Size/Grows to:
Height 55mm, Width 27mm
Distribution:
Chile, southern Africa, southern Australia and New Zealand. Kermadec Ridge, Three Kings Islands, North and South Island, Macquarie Ridge, Antipodes and Bounty Islands, and Chatham Rise, from 95-1000m
Type Data:
  • 750 metres, off Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, (holotype)
  • 69 metres, off Lusitania Bay, Macquarie Island, Australia, (holotype of Cymatona tomlini Powell, 1955)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.166)
  • Cernohorsky, W.O. 1977 The taxonomy of some molluscan species reported from New Zealand, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 14 (p.95)

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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