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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: THERASIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> [unassigned] Helicina (Infraorder)
> Punctoidea (Superfamily)
> Charopidae (Family)
> Therasiinae (Subfamily)
> Thermia (Genus)
> virescens (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammulina (Pyrrha) Hutton, 1883
=Pyrrha Hutton, 1883
Synonymised Names:
=Flammulina (Pyrrha) virescens Suter, 1899
Images: Thermia virescens (Suter, 1899)
Syntype, collected near Mount Stokes, N of Picton, NZ (M.125201). 8.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Syntype, collected near Mount Stokes, N of Picton, NZ (M.125201). 8.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Syntype, collected near Mount Stokes, N of Picton, NZ (M.125201). 8.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Cobb Lookout, Upper Takaka, NW Nelson, NZ. 15.0mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected Cobb Lookout, Upper Takaka, NW Nelson, NZ. 15.0mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected Cobb Lookout, Upper Takaka, NW Nelson, NZ. 15.0mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: THERASIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> [unassigned] Helicina (Infraorder)
> Punctoidea (Superfamily)
> Charopidae (Family)
> Therasiinae (Subfamily)
> Thermia (Genus)
> virescens (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammulina (Pyrrha) Hutton, 1883
=Pyrrha Hutton, 1883
Synonymised Names:
=Flammulina (Pyrrha) virescens Suter, 1899
Details: Thermia virescens (Suter, 1899)
Size/Grows to:
Width 15mm, Height 8.5mm
Distribution:
South Island. Marlborough to Canterbury
Geographical Range:
L.S.E.
Notes:
Land, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.316)
  • Suter, H. 1899 Descriptions of a new variety and five new species of New Zealand land Mollusca, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 3 (p.287) Original Description

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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