Quick Search
To Advanced Search
Taxonomy
Family:
COLLONIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Colloniidae (Family)
> Argalista (Genus)
> micans (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Homalopoma Carpenter, 1864
=Homalopoma (Argalista) Iredale, 1915
Images: Argalista micans (Powell, 1931)
No images yet of this species.
If you have good photos you would like to share, please email me, and I can add them here.
Taxonomy
Family:
COLLONIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Colloniidae (Family)
> Argalista (Genus)
> micans (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Homalopoma Carpenter, 1864
=Homalopoma (Argalista) Iredale, 1915
Details: Argalista micans (Powell, 1931)
Size/Grows to:
Height 1.13mm, Width 1.43mm
Distribution:
Snares and Auckland Islands
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.68)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1931 Descriptions of some new species of recent Mollusca, mainly from the sub-Antarctic islands of New Zealand, Records of the Canterbury Museum, 3 (p.374) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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