https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=obisschema_marginellidae_nz obisschema_marginellidae_nz Bruce A. Marshall Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Wellington NZ

Bruce A. Marshall Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Wellington NZ

2026-08-28 eng The primary objective of the present contribution is to address doubts concerning the identity of two of the most common New Zealand littoral species, long known as Marginella mustelina A. Angas, 1871, and M. pygmaea Sowerby, 1846, which, it transpires, are both specifically distinct from their Australian type material. The opportunity is taken to describe a common new species of Mesoginella from the north-eastern North Island and а new species of Serrata from the Kermadec Islands. The only marginelloidean now known to be common to both Australia (New South Wales) and New Zealand (Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands) is the minute cystiscid Pugnus parvus Hedley, 1896 (Brook and Marshall 1998).The common littoral and shallow sublittoral New Zealand species hitherto identified as Marginella pygmaea Sowerby, 1846 and M. mustelina Angas, 1871, and a Kermadec Islands species similar to M. mustelina, are considered to be specifically distinct from Australian type material of these taxa. Marginella pygmaea is interpreted as a synonym of the Australian species Mesoginella turbinata (Sowerby ,1846 )and the New Zealand species is described as new, together with a similar sympatric species. A New Zealand specimen is selected as neotype of Marginella fasciata Sowerby, 1846, which becomes the name for M. mustelina of authors, and the similar Kermadec Islands species is described as new. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml Specimen GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml marine, harvested by iOBIS This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html CC-BY-4.0 northern New Zealand 171.73333 -177.8769 -29.2323 -39.091 family Marginellidae marginellas notPlanned Bruce A. Marshall Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Wellington NZ

2026-08-28T13:17:01.506+12:00 dataset Marshall B A (2026). Data from: New names for four common Marginellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from northern New Zealand. Version 1.1. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. Occurrence dataset. https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=obisschema_marginellidae_nz&v=1.1 Marshall, B. A. 2004. New names for four common Marginellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from northern New Zealand. Molluscan Research, vol. 24, pp 7-20 https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?id=obisschema_marginellidae_nz/v1.1.xml