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Taxonomy
Family:
TRIPHORIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Triphoroidea (Superfamily)
> Triphoridae (Family)
> Teretriphora (Genus)
> huttoni (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cerithium (Ino) minimus Hutton, 1873
=Triphora huttoni Suter, 1908
Images: Teretriphora huttoni (Suter, 1908)
Syntype, collected NZ (M.000140). 5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Dredged in 150-200 metres, Taiaroa Canyon, Otago, NZ. 5mm. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family:
TRIPHORIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Triphoroidea (Superfamily)
> Triphoridae (Family)
> Teretriphora (Genus)
> huttoni (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cerithium (Ino) minimus Hutton, 1873
=Triphora huttoni Suter, 1908
Details: Teretriphora huttoni (Suter, 1908)
Size/Grows to:
Height 5mm, Width 1.5mm
Distribution:
Southern South Island as far north as Caswell Sound, Stewart, Auckland, Antipodes and Bounty Islands, Campbell Island and Pukaki Rise, from 0-550m
Type Data:
  • Stewart Island, NZ, (syntype of Cerithium (Ino) minimus Hutton, 1873)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Sinistral
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References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 1983 A revision of the Recent Triphoridae of southern Australia, Records of the Australian Museum (p.34)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.256)
  • 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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