Zeacolpus pagoda pagoda

Taxobox
name = "Zeacolpus pagoda pagoda"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusa
classis = Gastropoda
infraclassis = Apogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Cerithiimorpha
superfamilia = Cerithioidea
familia = Turritellidae
genus = "Zeacolpus"
species = "Z. pagoda"
subspecies = "Z. pagoda pagoda"
trinomial = "Zeacolpus pagoda pagoda"
trinomial_authority = Marwick, 1957
synonyms =

"Zeacolpus pagoda pagoda", is a subspecies of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turritellidae.

Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to the north east coast of the North Island of New Zealand.

Habitat

This snail lives at between low water mark and a depth of 75 m.

hell description

The shell is tall and slender, solid, with two prominent primary cords on the spire whorls, and a third emergent from the lower suture on the body whorl, the rest of the surface with linear spaced spiral lirae.

The shell coloration is pinkish-white, with numerous wavy longitudinal streaks of reddish-brown.

The shell height is up to 37 mm, and the width is up to 9 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1