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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
TROCHIDAE: CANTHARIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Trochidae (Family)
> Cantharidinae (Subfamily)
> Micrelenchus (Genus)
> tessellatus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Cantharidus (Mawhero) B.A. Marshall, 1998
=Mawhero B.A. Marshall, 1998
=Micrelenchus (Mawhero) B.A. Marshall, 1998
=Micrelenchus (Micrelenchus) Finlay, 1926
=Trochus (Gibbium) Gray, 1843 (invalid, junior homonym of Gibbium Scopoli, 1777)
Synonymised Names:
=Cantharidella tesselata (A. Adams, 1853)
=Cantharidus tesselatus (A. Adams, 1853)
=Chrysostoma inconspicua Hutton, 1873
=Gibbula nitida A. Adams & Angas, 1864
=Margarita tesselata A. Adams, 1853
=Micrelenchus (Micrelenchus) tesselatus (A. Adams, 1853)
=Talopena sublaevis Finlay, 1924
Images: Micrelenchus tessellatus (A. Adams, 1851)
Tolaga Bay, East Cape, NZ. 9mm
Tolaga Bay, East Cape, NZ. 9mm
Holotype of Talopena sublaevis Finlay, Bluff, Southland, NZ (MA70756). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype of Talopena sublaevis Finlay, Bluff, Southland, NZ (MA70756). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
TROCHIDAE: CANTHARIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Trochidae (Family)
> Cantharidinae (Subfamily)
> Micrelenchus (Genus)
> tessellatus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Cantharidus (Mawhero) B.A. Marshall, 1998
=Mawhero B.A. Marshall, 1998
=Micrelenchus (Mawhero) B.A. Marshall, 1998
=Micrelenchus (Micrelenchus) Finlay, 1926
=Trochus (Gibbium) Gray, 1843 (invalid, junior homonym of Gibbium Scopoli, 1777)
Synonymised Names:
=Cantharidella tesselata (A. Adams, 1853)
=Cantharidus tesselatus (A. Adams, 1853)
=Chrysostoma inconspicua Hutton, 1873
=Gibbula nitida A. Adams & Angas, 1864
=Margarita tesselata A. Adams, 1853
=Micrelenchus (Micrelenchus) tesselatus (A. Adams, 1853)
=Talopena sublaevis Finlay, 1924
Details: Micrelenchus tessellatus (A. Adams, 1851)
Size/Grows to:
Height 9mm, Width 8mm
Distribution:
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Donald, K.M., Spencer, H.G. 2016 Phylogeographic patterns in New Zealand and temperate Australian cantharidines (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae: Cantharidinae): Trans-Tasman divergences are ancient, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 100 (p.341)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.57)
  • Adams, A. 1853 Contributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae, a family of gasteropodous Mollusca, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 19 (p.191) Original Description

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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