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Taxonomy
Family:
TRIPHORIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Triphoroidea (Superfamily)
> Triphoridae (Family)
> Monophorus (Genus)
> fascelinus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Monophorus fascelina (Suter, 1908)
=Notosinister fascelinus (Suter, 1908)
=Triphora fascelina Suter, 1908
Images: Monophorus fascelinus (Suter, 1908)
Collected in 150-200 metres, Taiaroa Canyon, Otago, NZ. © rights reserved
Collected in 60 metres, between Taiaroa Head and Taiaroa Canyon, Otago, NZ. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family:
TRIPHORIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Triphoroidea (Superfamily)
> Triphoridae (Family)
> Monophorus (Genus)
> fascelinus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Monophorus fascelina (Suter, 1908)
=Notosinister fascelinus (Suter, 1908)
=Triphora fascelina Suter, 1908
Details: Monophorus fascelinus (Suter, 1908)
Size/Grows to:
Height 6mm
Distribution:
Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga, north-eastern and south-western North Island, north-western and eastern South Island, and Stewart, Snares and Auckland Islands, from 37-710m
Type Data:
  • 91 metres, off Snares Islands, NZ, (holotype, paratype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Sinistral
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 1983 A revision of the Recent Triphoridae of southern Australia, Records of the Australian Museum (p.26)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.255)
  • 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.38) 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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