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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
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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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