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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)
> sanguineus (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:
=Cantharidus oliveri Iredale, 1915
=Cantharidus sanguineus (Gray, 1843)
=Micrelenchus (Micrelenchus) sanguineus (Gray, 1843) accepted, alternate representation
=Micrelenchus oliveri (Iredale, 1915)
=Micrelenchus oliveri cryptus Powell, 1946
=Trochus (Gibbium) sanguineus Gray, 1843
Images: Micrelenchus sanguineus (Gray, 1843)
Stewart Island, NZ. 8mm
Stewart Island, NZ. 8mm
Holotype of Micrelenchus oliveri cryptus Powell, collected S of Clarence River mouth, Marlborough, NZ (MA71040). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Neotype of Cantharidus oliveri Iredale, 1915, collected Takapuna Reef, Auckland, NZ (MA71319). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Neotype of Cantharidus oliveri Iredale, 1915, collected Takapuna Reef, Auckland, NZ (MA71319). © 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)
> sanguineus (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:
=Cantharidus oliveri Iredale, 1915
=Cantharidus sanguineus (Gray, 1843)
=Micrelenchus (Micrelenchus) sanguineus (Gray, 1843) accepted, alternate representation
=Micrelenchus oliveri (Iredale, 1915)
=Micrelenchus oliveri cryptus Powell, 1946
=Trochus (Gibbium) sanguineus Gray, 1843
Details: Micrelenchus sanguineus (Gray, 1843)
Size/Grows to:
Height 8mm, Width 7mm
Distribution:
North, South and Stewart Island
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)
  • Marshall, B.A. 1998 The New Zealand Recent species of Cantharidus Montfort, 1810 and Micrelenchus Finlay, 1926 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae), Molluscan Research, 19 (p.121)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.57)

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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