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Taxonomy
Family:
TATEIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Truncatelloidea (Superfamily)
> Tateidae (Family)
> Potamopyrgus (Genus)
> estuarinus (Species)
Images: Potamopyrgus estuarinus Winterbourn, 1971
Holotype, collected 20 Aug 1966, Bell Block, New Plymouth, NZ (M.024112). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Jul 1977, Porirua Harbour, Wellington, NZ. 4.3. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Taxonomy
Family:
TATEIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Truncatelloidea (Superfamily)
> Tateidae (Family)
> Potamopyrgus (Genus)
> estuarinus (Species)
Details: Potamopyrgus estuarinus Winterbourn, 1971
Size/Grows to:
Height 7mm
Distribution:
North and South Island. Brackish streams
Notes:
Brackish, Freshwater, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Haase, M. 2008 The radiation of hydrobiid gastropods in New Zealand: a revision including the description of new species based on morphology and mtDNA sequence information, Systematics and Biodiversity, 6(1) (p.104)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.122)
  • Winterbourn, M.J. 1971 The New Zealand species of Potamopyrgus (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae), Malacologia, 10 (p.286) Original Description

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