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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Lenitrophon (Genus)
> convexus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Axymene (Lenitrophon) Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Trophon convexus Suter, 1909
=Xymene convexus (Suter, 1909)
Images: Lenitrophon convexus (Suter, 1909)
Dredged in 150 metres, Papanui Canyon, Otago, NZ. 7.8mm. © rights reserved
Trawled in 80 metres, off Otago, NZ. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Lenitrophon (Genus)
> convexus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Axymene (Lenitrophon) Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Trophon convexus Suter, 1909
=Xymene convexus (Suter, 1909)
Details: Lenitrophon convexus (Suter, 1909)
Size/Grows to:
Height 12.4mm, Width 4.5mm
Distribution:
South-eastern South Island as far north as Oamaru, Stewart Island and eastern Chatham Rise, from 17-457m
Type Data:
  • 185 metres, ESE of Cape Saunders, Otago Peninsula, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.175)
  • Ponder, W.F. 1972 A review of the genus Xymene Iredale of New Zealand (Mollusca: Muricidae), Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2(4) (p.497)
  • Suter, H. 1913 Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca, John MacKay, Government Printer, Wellington (p.411)
  • Suter, H. 1909 Scientific results of the New Zealand government trawling expedition, 1908. Mollusca., Records of the Canterbury Museum, 1 (p.126) 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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