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Taxonomy
Family:
BELOMITRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Belomitridae (Family)
> Belomitra (Genus)
> aoteana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Bathyclionella Kobelt, 1905
=Cryptomitra Dall, 1924
=Dellina Beu, 1970
=Morrisonella Bartsch, 1945
=Pleurobela Monterosato [in Locard], 1897
Synonymised Names:
=Antizafra aoteana Dell, 1956
=Belomitra climacella of authors, not Dall
=Dellina aoteana (Dell, 1956)
=Waipaoa aoteana (Dell, 1956)
=Waipaoa munida Ponder, 1968
Images: Belomitra aoteana (Dell, 1956)
Type of Waipaoa munida Ponder, 1968, collected 22 May 1967, ESE of Taiaroa Heads, NZ (M.021554). 13mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
BELOMITRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
> Belomitridae (Family)
> Belomitra (Genus)
> aoteana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Bathyclionella Kobelt, 1905
=Cryptomitra Dall, 1924
=Dellina Beu, 1970
=Morrisonella Bartsch, 1945
=Pleurobela Monterosato [in Locard], 1897
Synonymised Names:
=Antizafra aoteana Dell, 1956
=Belomitra climacella of authors, not Dall
=Dellina aoteana (Dell, 1956)
=Waipaoa aoteana (Dell, 1956)
=Waipaoa munida Ponder, 1968
Details: Belomitra aoteana (Dell, 1956)
Size/Grows to:
Height 13mm, Width 5mm
Distribution:
Challenger Plateau, eastern South Island, Bounty Plateau and Chatham Rise, from 403-1099m
Type Data:
  • 400 metres, Chatham Rise, NZ, (holotype of Antizafra aoteana Dell, 1956)
  • 630-690 metres, off Taiaroa Head, NZ, (type of Waipaoa munida Ponder, 1968)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Kantor, Yuri, Puillandre, N., Rivasseau, A. 2012 Neither a buccinid nor a turrid: A new family of deep-sea snails for Belomitra P. Fischer, 1883 (Mollusca, Neogastropda), with a review of Recent Indo-Pacific species, Zootaxa, 3496 (p.14)
  • Bouchet, P., Warén, A. 1985 Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda, excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda), Bollettino Malacologico, 1 (p.223)
  • Bouchet, P., Warén, A. 1985 Mollusca Gastropoda: Taxonomical notes on tropical deep water Buccinidae with descriptions of new taxa, Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 133 (p.474)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.226)
  • Dell, R.K. 1956 The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand, Dominion Museum Bulletin, 18 (p.111) 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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