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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)
> tenebrosus (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 tenebrosus A. Adams, 1853
=Gibbula dolorosa Tenison-Woods, 1877
=Micrelenchus (Micrelenchus) tenebrosus (A. Adams, 1853) accepted, alternate representation
=Micrelenchus parcipictus Powell, 1946
=Trochus (Gibbula) scamnatus P. Fischer, 1878
Images: Micrelenchus tenebrosus A. Adams, 1853
Marfells Beach, Marlborough, NZ. 8mm
Marfells Beach, Marlborough, NZ. 8mm
Holotype of Micrelenchus parcipictus Powell, collected in 1934, east of Puysegur Point, Southland, NZ (MA71041). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype of Micrelenchus parcipictus Powell, collected in 1934, east of Puysegur Point, Southland, NZ (MA71041). © 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)
> tenebrosus (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 tenebrosus A. Adams, 1853
=Gibbula dolorosa Tenison-Woods, 1877
=Micrelenchus (Micrelenchus) tenebrosus (A. Adams, 1853) accepted, alternate representation
=Micrelenchus parcipictus Powell, 1946
=Trochus (Gibbula) scamnatus P. Fischer, 1878
Details: Micrelenchus tenebrosus A. Adams, 1853
Size/Grows to:
Height 11mm, Width 10mm
Distribution:
Southern North Island, South and Stewart Island. Under stones in coastal regions
Geographical Range:
ACF
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Coastal, open water on seaweed and under kelp holdfasts
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.125)
  • 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.170) 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