Columbarium mariae

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Columbarium mariae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Suborder: Hypsogastropoda
Infraorder: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Columbariidae
Genus: Columbarium
Species: C. mariae
Binomial name
Columbarium mariae
(Powell, 1952)
Synonyms

Coluzea mariae Powell, 1952

Columbarium mariae is a species of pagoda shell, a deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Columbariidae, the pagoda shells. However, this genus is often placed in the family Turbinellidae.

Gastropod taxonomy in general is currently in flux and is under active professional revision.

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[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand east to the Chatham Islands.

[edit] Habitat

This pagoda shell lives at depths of between 100 and 600 m.

[edit] Shell description

The shell has a broader and more squat spire than Columbarium spiralis, the body whorl is more rounded, the peripheral keel less prominent, and the axial folds more numerous, forming 23 or 24 blunt tubercles per whorl.

The shell coloration is uniformly white.

The shell height is up to 81 mm, and width up to 21.5 mm.

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