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Taxonomy
Family:
OMALOGYRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> 'Lower Heterobranchia' (Infraclass)
> Omalogyroidea (Superfamily)
> Omalogyridae (Family)
> Omalogyra (Genus)
> ammonitoides (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ammonicerina O.G. Costa, 1861
=Helisalia Laseron, 1954
=Homalogyra Jeffreys, 1867
Synonymised Names:
=Zerotula ammonitoides Powell, 1940
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Taxonomy
Family:
OMALOGYRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> 'Lower Heterobranchia' (Infraclass)
> Omalogyroidea (Superfamily)
> Omalogyridae (Family)
> Omalogyra (Genus)
> ammonitoides (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ammonicerina O.G. Costa, 1861
=Helisalia Laseron, 1954
=Homalogyra Jeffreys, 1867
Synonymised Names:
=Zerotula ammonitoides Powell, 1940
Details: Omalogyra ammonitoides (Powell, 1940)
Size/Grows to:
Width 1.35mm, Height 0.4mm
Distribution:
Off Northland
Geographical Range:
A
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Warén, A., Lewis, L. 1994 Two new species of Eulimid Gastropods Endoparasitic in Asteroids, The Veliger, 37(3) (p.320)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.248)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1940 The Marine Mollusca of the Aupourian Province, New Zealand, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 70 (p.236) 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