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Taxonomy
Family:
COLLONIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Colloniidae (Family)
> Argalista (Genus)
> imperforata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Homalopoma Carpenter, 1864
=Homalopoma (Argalista) Iredale, 1915
Synonymised Names:
=Homalopoma (Argalista) foveauxana Ponder, 1968
=Pseudoliotia imperforata Suter, 1908
Images: Argalista imperforata (Suter, 1908)
Holotype of Homalopoma (Argalista) foveauxana Ponder, 1968, collected Oct 1955, off Whero Island, Carter Passage, Stewart Island, NZ (M.020970). 3.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
COLLONIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Colloniidae (Family)
> Argalista (Genus)
> imperforata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Homalopoma Carpenter, 1864
=Homalopoma (Argalista) Iredale, 1915
Synonymised Names:
=Homalopoma (Argalista) foveauxana Ponder, 1968
=Pseudoliotia imperforata Suter, 1908
Details: Argalista imperforata (Suter, 1908)
Size/Grows to:
Width 3.5mm, Height 3.05mm
Distribution:
North, South and Stewart Island
Geographical Range:
ACF
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.67)
  • Suter, H. 1908 Additions to the marine molluscan fauna of New Zealand, with descriptions of new species, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 8 (p.26) Original Description

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
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