Zeacolpus pagoda pagoda

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Zeacolpus pagoda pagoda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusa
Class: Gastropoda
Infraclass: Apogastropoda
Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Suborder: Cerithiimorpha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Turritellidae
Genus: Zeacolpus
Species: Z. pagoda
Subspecies: Z. pagoda pagoda
Trinomial name
Zeacolpus pagoda pagoda
Marwick, 1957

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

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[edit] Distribution

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

[edit] Habitat

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

[edit] Shell 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.

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