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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PLANORBIDAE: ANCYLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Hygrophila (Superorder)
> Lymnaeoidea (Superfamily)
> Planorbidae (Family)
> Ancylinae (Subfamily)
> Ferrissia (Genus)
> neozelanica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ancylus (Ferrissia) B. Walker, 1903
=Ferrissia (Ferrissia) B. Walker, 1903
=Ferrissia (Kincaidilla) Hannibal, 1912
=Gundlachia (Kincaidilla) Hannibal, 1912
=Watsonula Mirolli, 1960
Synonymised Names:
=Ferrissia (Kincaidilla) neozelanica (Suter, 1905) accepted, alternate representation
=Gundlachia neozelanica Suter, 1905
Images: Ferrissia neozelanica (Suter, 1905)
Syntype, collected River Avon, Christchurch, NZ (M.125143). 3mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PLANORBIDAE: ANCYLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Hygrophila (Superorder)
> Lymnaeoidea (Superfamily)
> Planorbidae (Family)
> Ancylinae (Subfamily)
> Ferrissia (Genus)
> neozelanica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ancylus (Ferrissia) B. Walker, 1903
=Ferrissia (Ferrissia) B. Walker, 1903
=Ferrissia (Kincaidilla) Hannibal, 1912
=Gundlachia (Kincaidilla) Hannibal, 1912
=Watsonula Mirolli, 1960
Synonymised Names:
=Ferrissia (Kincaidilla) neozelanica (Suter, 1905) accepted, alternate representation
=Gundlachia neozelanica Suter, 1905
Details: Ferrissia neozelanica (Suter, 1905)
Size/Grows to:
Length 3mm, Width 2mm, Height 0.75mm
Distribution:
South Island
Geographical Range:
Fw.S.
Notes:
Freshwater Limpet, Freshwater, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.296)
  • Winterbourn, M.J. 1973 A guide to the Freshwater Mollusca of New Zealand, Tuatara, 20 (p.156)
  • Suter, H. 1904 The first-discovered New Zealand Gundlachia., Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 37 (p.258) 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
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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