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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
RHYTIDIDAE: RHYTIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Rhytidoidei (Infraorder)
> Rhytidoidea (Superfamily)
> Rhytididae (Family)
> Rhytidinae (Subfamily)
> Delos (Genus)
> regia (Species)
Images: Delos regia Climo, 1973
Holotype, Near Tasman Stream, Great Island, Three Kings Islands, NZ (M.029483). 4.2mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, Near Tasman Stream, Great Island, Three Kings Islands, NZ (M.029483). 4.2mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, Near Tasman Stream, Great Island, Three Kings Islands, NZ (M.029483). 4.2mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
RHYTIDIDAE: RHYTIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Rhytidoidei (Infraorder)
> Rhytidoidea (Superfamily)
> Rhytididae (Family)
> Rhytidinae (Subfamily)
> Delos (Genus)
> regia (Species)
Details: Delos regia Climo, 1973
Size/Grows to:
Width 4.2mm
Distribution:
Three Kings Islands
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.348)
  • Climo, F.M. 1973 The Systematics, Biology and Zoogeography of the land snail fauna of Great Island, Three Kings Group, New Zealand, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 3(4) (p.580) 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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