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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
Geographical Range:
ACF
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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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