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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)
> Enixotrophon (Genus)
> maxwelli (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Pagodula Monterosato, 1884
Synonymised Names:
=Pagodula maxwelli B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011
Images: Enixotrophon maxwelli (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011)
Holotype, collected 13 Jan 1979, lower Kaikoura Canyon, S of Kaikoura, NZ (M.190327). 52.3mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: PAGODULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Pagodulinae (Subfamily)
> Enixotrophon (Genus)
> maxwelli (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Pagodula Monterosato, 1884
Synonymised Names:
=Pagodula maxwelli B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011
Details: Enixotrophon maxwelli (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011)
Size/Grows to:
Height 53mm, Width 22mm
Distribution:
West Norfolk Ridge, North Island, eastern South Island and Chatham Rise, from 867-2619m
Type Data:
  • 1000-1010 metres, Challenger Plateau, off Westport, NW South Island, NZ, (paratype)
  • 1500 metres, Lower Kaikoura Canyon, S of Kaikoura, NZ, (holotype, paratype)
  • 1550-1750 metres, Head of Hikurangi Trench, N Chatham Rise, NZ, (paratype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Houart, R. 2011 The genus Pagodula (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) in Australia, the New Zealand region and the Tasman Sea, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 54 (p.97) 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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